room for mothers to breastfeed, except for ones who have less than 50 employees. i want to bring in two women who have lived out these dilemmas. hannah pingry and her daughter, sheila pingre. i want to talk about the relationship between the kinds of policies we see and the social contract we which is very incomplete in how it responds to mothers and children and the fact that we don t have more mothers as politicians. it s a basic brute democratic fact of who we elect to represent us in state houses and in congress. sure, well i mean first of all, most people probably understand this, there aren t enough women in politics.
it s nasty, it s probably going to be painful and it s not that good for your kids. and these things are just i want to make the point that this is not in other, there are other countries in which that is the dominant paradigm. in fact that s the elite high-status paradigm. in france, for instance. in the u.s. we have a system now where there s high correlation along racial lines and income. here s a stat. that higher income women are more likely to breastfeed. this gets at some of what these cultural expectations are at the top and the dividing line, the deep class differences in what motherhood looks like. some of the stuff is a luxury. it s kind of a luxury to breathfeed your baby after six months. how much of this has to do with accommodations that are made for people at work. i couldn t see the bottom line. i wonder if that s initiation rates or at what point the kids
children report, the u.s. has the least favorable environment for breastfeeding. save the children calculated a score for 36 industrialized countries, based on maternity leave laws, rights to nursing breaks at work and policy features, norway came in first, the u.s. came in last. the affordable care act requires workplaces with more than 50 workers to create rooms where women can pump or breastfeed. and there s a whole lot more needs to be done. you should know before mother s day was an occasion for cards and flowers and brunch, not that anything is wrong with brunch, it was founded as a radical call for peace. in 1870, a feminist abolitionist inaugurate rated the first mother s day with the following proclamation. arise then women of this day. arise all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears. say firmly we will not have great questions cited by irrelevant agencies. our husbands shall not come
stage of development. they don t breastfeed in france. the lowerest rate of breastfeeding in the western world. the highest birth rate. the much better health outcomes, no mommy wars and more pragmatic. the government supports moms in a way that american moms are not supported. how much of what we have in the u.s. at this moment is a product of a certain set of cultural expectations and how much of it is the policy framework? you talk bur child in the creche in france which is the universal day care pre-k. which i was terrified of. i was terrified of the french public day care. i m sending my kid to the post office. it s wonderful, all the middle class moms are competing to get a spot. it s the preferred type of child care and of course it makes everything much easier. it makes it easier to go back to