The problem with maternity discrimination and the mumpreneur

If employment conditions were more just, fewer mothers would have to go it aloneDuring my maternity leave I had a conversation with a guy at a party, where he regretfully told me that as long as men couldn’t give birth, equality would never be a reality. Perhaps women just aren’t meant to work, he concluded. Maybe not! I replied brightly, later deciding not to tell him he was trailing toilet paper from his shoe.I felt really lucky a couple of months later, to return to a job that I c