Hi, Judy and Friends:  If you have not yet discovered the website: 
www.momsrising.com, please go visit.  A "buzzword" of 2008 seems to be a 
concept called "maternal profiling".  I'm sure most of us here in the US are 
familiar with the term "racial profiling", in which a person is discriminated 
against or harrassed due to their race.  According to the MomsRising group, a 
similar situation exists in the working world against mothers.  Besides the 
salary gap, other problems are opportunities for career advancement and basic 
treatment of a mother vs. non-mother by her co-workers and supervisors.  I 
wonder, with our presidential election this year, if any of the candidates 
(particularly the one working mother candidate) will pick up and address this 
issue.


Pam Hirsch, BSN,RN,IBCLC
Clinical Lead, Lactation Services
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL    USA

Who herself is not unfamiliar on a personal level with this concept.

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