Surviving the Workday

So says the alarmist Washington Times article, Working mothers don’t breast feed enough:

Many working mothers in this country and abroad do not breast-feed their babies, suggesting maternal employment can be a liability in providing infants with the benefits of breast milk, according to new research.

Ms. Theologian wonders if “new research” that concluded that employment was a liability to breastfeeding could have used input from the Women Work Because They Need the Money and Not Because They Want to Neglect Their Children Institute. It’s a popular organization, but it scarcely gets any press coverage in the so-called Mommy Wars, a constructed war that insists women who work hate women who don’t who hate women that work. etc.

Thanks to Feministing for the link and Jessica who pointed out that rather than focusing on how workplaces could become more flexible for the needs of breast feeding women, the research has concluded that women are all to blame (damn you for working to feed yourself when you should be breastfeeding!).

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