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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