Your Parental Leave Stories

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business/management, Human, Business/careers, Women, Careers, Hbr, Resources, Workplace, Gender, Business, Business/entrepreneurship, Harvard, Progress, Equality

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🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We bring you three stories about parental leave, from listeners whose experiences with it changed them, for better or for worse. They talk about having to fight for more time off, go back to work before they were ready, care for sick babies, and try to hide their exhaustion and stress. Ultimately, they’re stories about how inadequate leave policies hurt families and companies.

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0:00.0	Harvard Business School Executive Education develops leaders who make a difference in the world.
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0:13.0	Learn more at HBS. Me slash work.
0:17.0	That's HBS.
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0:23.0	You're listening to women at work from Harvard Business Review.
0:29.0	I'm Sarah Greenker Michael. I'm
0:33.9	Nicole Torres and I'm Amy Bernstein. Earlier in this season in our episode
0:38.7	about how to manage parental leave yours or someone else is we asked you how you've managed it.
0:44.0	Several of you told us about your experiences and they are not happy stories.
0:49.0	There are stories about how inadequate leave policies hurt women, families, and companies.
0:55.0	They're also about how these women may do with whatever benefits their company gave them,
1:00.0	or that they negotiated for.
1:02.0	We hope their stories will help you manage Parenta leave a little better,
1:06.0	and we hope they'll propel the decision-makers listening
1:08.0	to think about how they approach Parenta leave in their organizations.
1:12.0	First up, a story from a woman who found... to leave in their organizations.
1:12.7	First up, a story from a woman who found out
1:15.2	she was pregnant a few months into a new job.
1:18.2	She tells us how she coped at a company
1:20.0	that wasn't used to people having babies.
1:22.4	When we found out we were expecting, my husband and I were very excited,
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