Abstract:
:Early return to work after childbirth has been increasing among working mothers in the US. We assessed the relationship between access to employer-offered maternity leave (EOML) (both paid and unpaid) and uptake and duration of maternity leave following childbirth in a socio-economically diverse sample of full-time working women. We focus on California, a state that has long provided more generous maternity leave benefits than those offered by federal maternity leave policies through the State Disability Insurance program. The sample included 691 mothers who gave birth in Southern California in 2002-2003. Using weighted logistic regression, we examined the EOML-maternity leave duration relationship, controlling for whether the leave was paid, as well as other occupational, personality and health-related covariates. Compared with mothers who were offered more than 12 weeks of maternity leave, mothers with <6 weeks of EOML and those offered 6-12 weeks had five times higher odds of returning to work within 12 weeks; those offered no leave had six times higher odds of an early return. These relationships were similar after controlling for whether the leave was paid and after controlling for other occupational and health characteristics. Access to and duration of employer-offered maternity leave significantly determine timing of return to work following childbirth, potentially affecting work-family balance. Policy makers should recognize the pivotal role of employers in offering job security during and after maternity leave and consider widening the eligibility criteria of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
journal_name
Matern Child Health Jjournal_title
Maternal and child health journalauthors
Guendelman S,Goodman J,Kharrazi M,Lahiff Mdoi
10.1007/s10995-013-1255-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-01-01 00:00:00pages
200-208issue
1eissn
1092-7875issn
1573-6628pii
10.1007/s10995-013-1255-4journal_volume
18pub_type
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更新日期:2014-05-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 信件
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更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2010-11-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00