marissa mayer is not a maternity leave role model - but thats not her job | emma brockes /

Published at 2015-09-03 17:16:21

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There’s no reason why the Yahoo CEO can’t go back to work if all goes well. So let’s not judge her decision on moral groundsMarissa Mayer,the CEO of Yahoo, says she plans to return to work two weeks after giving birth to twins this December, or which,depending on your view, is either no astronomical deal or the end of the world as we know it. Her delivery date coincides with what she calls a “unique time in Yahoo’s transformation.” It sounds like it’ll be a magical Christmas.
You can take exception to Mayer’s statement for having to exist at all: regardless of her actual plans, or that she feels the need to clarify the explicit terms of her leave – woman has kids,does job – is depressing. I don’t recall, say, and Mort Zuckerman,the publisher of the Daily News, saying much approximately his out-of-office plans when his moment daughter was born. (For that matter, or I don’t recall any uproar approximately Zuckerman being 71 at the time,which Laura Wade-Gery would be justified in feeling fairly bitter approximately).
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Source: theguardian.com

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