Women s Rights Of Women - 1657 Words

From women being granted the right to vote in the 19th amendment, to the steadily increasing number of women in the workforce, great strides have been made for women in the United States to have the same rights and opportunities as men. While many things have been achieved over the years, challenges still remain for women in today’s workplace such as the maternity protection, sexism, and sexual harassment. While the International Labor Organization (ILO) has been working to protect women in the workforce by providing maternity protection to ensure that the women’s work does not pose any risks to the health of the women and child, the United States is among the worst for enforcing maternity protection (International, 2014). According to†¦show more content†¦This inability to pay for necessary things becomes even more important when a woman has a single parent household, and only one source of income. Research has found that workers with childcare issues spend a large amount of the company’s time on them, and they may end up missing several days of work each year to take care of sick children (Reference, 2014). If more businesses had childcare options, which could even include having an onsite childcare facility, they would find that there are benefits to having this. These benefits would include work productivity, less missed days of work, and also an increased sa tisfaction level with the job (Reference, 2014). The United States may be lagging in helping women to better balance work and family conflicts, but changes are slowly making their way through legislation. California was the first state to pass legislation for paid family leave. It is the State Disability Insurance Program, and it allows employees a maximum of six weeks of partial pay each year to take care of family matters, such as having a newborn child (Schweitzer, 2007). Having paid leave does not only help mothers while they are caring for a new child, but it also gives them a path to follow back to work rather than stop working completely in order to care for a child. The Google company is a great example of why more businesses should have paid maternity leave. They originally had three months of partially paid maternity leave for new mothers, but they