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Getting Ahead in Your Career While on Maternity Leave

I'm ambivalent about the ideas in this post. While I do like the idea of a maternity leave as a professional sabbatical - a time to lie fallow for a while, a time to develop oneself, this approach suggests to me that the child is a mere hiccup in one's professional career, rather than the life-changing event (not to mention entire other human being) they in fact are.

Still, it's a well-written article, with provocative ideas worth considering. I'm sure that women who get an actual maternity leave (rather than the 4 - 6 work hiatus pretending to be mat. leave that too many American women receive) could put these ideas to productive use.

Flag as inappropriate Posted by MaryP on 10th September 2007
It is nice to read articles as such. I am a working mother and came back to work after 3 months of bedrest and baby. After coming back noticed my peers have moved a head of me and for the first few weeks I was lost and feeling bad for my career loss. I have been talking to my manager to get opprutunities like my peers to take up more responsibilities. Right now it looks like a dead zone to me. This has prompted me to look outside the company for better positions. This article perfectly describes what I have been doing to advance my career after I had a baby

Flag as inappropriate Posted by Mamtha on 6th September 2007