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Article: Mothers' rooms ease transition back to work.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- June 24, 2002
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Byline: Carol Kleiman
Nursing mothers who return to work deserve something very special, and Virginia Woolf said it first: a room of their own.
More employers are aware that more than half of American women go back to their jobs by the time their children are 3 months old.
And why at 3 months? That's usually because after three months, or 12 weeks of unpaid leave, the Family and Medical Leave Act runs out.
Many of the women who return to work do so because they need the money. And some of them still are nursing their babies.
Savvy employers, who want the new mothers back on the job as soon as possible because they're valuable ...