96: Pregnancy/Postpartum Rights in the Workplace ft. Emily Kearney
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Being a working mom can have plenty of “bumps” in the road (…see what I did there?) but your postpartum rights shouldn’t be one of them. I absolutely loved chatting with attorney Emily Kearney on today’s show! Emily has experience in postpartum rights in the workplace and speaking with her about our rights if we’re returning to a secular workplace post-childbirth was fascinating. We also talked about her work in the area of broader disability rights, why she feels we’re so indifferent about ableist discrimination, and why these are pro-life issues. This episode is a total powerhouse of legal, empowering goodness—enjoy! Emily also provided us with an INCREDIBLY generous handout on our rights as moms int he workplace. Head to the show notes at www.thecatholicfeministpodcast.com/shownotes/emilyk to snag her free download.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 96. Today we're talking about |
| 0:05.6 | postpartum and maternity leave rights in the workplace. Today's episode is |
| 0:10.7 | brought to you by Sock Religious. |
| 0:12.9 | Head to Sock Religious.com and enter |
| 0:15.2 | Fem 10 at checkout for 10% off a pair of socks. |
| 0:19.4 | Today's episode is also brought to you by Audible |
| 0:22.0 | for a free |
| 0:22.6 | audio book and a free 30 day trial head to audible trial |
| 0:25.6 | dot com slash catholic |
| 0:29.5 | welcome to the catholic feminist |
| 0:31.4 | a podcast for strong women who want to be informed, inspired, |
| 0:35.0 | and intentional. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. Happy Wednesday everybody. I hope everyone's having a wonderful march and a beautiful start to your Lenton season. |
| 0:57.0 | I just got back from a weekend in New York actually. It was amazing. I got to spend some time with some high school |
| 1:03.0 | and college-aged women as they prepared to go |
| 1:05.8 | to the UN's Commission on the status of women. |
| 1:09.0 | And it was amazing. |
| 1:10.3 | I got to learn all about Catholic social teaching and share my own story about |
| 1:14.1 | feminism and it was just a really really special weekend. I took my sisters with me |
| 1:18.5 | we went to see frozen on Broadway and I got to meet up with my book agent in New York. |
| 1:23.2 | So that was really fun too. |
| 1:25.2 | I've mentioned this on here before, |
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