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This short piece appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe. Does anyone
know the research being reported here?
Naomi
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/04/03/the_breast_feeding_penalty/
The breast-feeding penalty
Surprising insights from the social sciences
By Kevin Lewis
April 3, 2011)Text size – +
Over the past couple decades in America, there’s been increasing
support for breast-feeding. Unfortunately, as the saying goes, there’s
no free lunch. A new study finds that breast-feeding mothers suffer a
psychological penalty in the eyes of both men and women. When told
that Brooke Shields had written a book including “experiences with
breast-feeding,” people viewed her as less competent, especially in
math, and more likely to experience sexism than if her book had
included “experiences with bottle-feeding.” Likewise, after
overhearing a woman playing back a voice-mail message, people rated
that woman as less competent and less hirable if the voice mail
implied that the woman was a breast-feeding mother.
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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
Executive Director
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England
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617-527-6263
www.milkbankne.org
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