Friday, September 08, 2006

Breast-Feeding Takes Giant Leap (On Balance, Washington Post)

Ten years ago, it was essentially inconceivable that a story about working moms who breast-feed would be a a front page national news story. Maybe something buried in a Health or Women's section, hidden behind the words "lactation" or another innocuous descriptor chosen to avoid making men squirm. But here we are, moms: Note the historic date of Friday, Sept. 1, 2006, when the New York Times ran a front page story and home page video on its Web site about how hard it is to breast-feed at work: On the Job, Nursing Mothers Are Finding a 2-Class System. There were even color pictures of one woman's milk baggies in the office freezer next to some black bean enchiladas and two photos of moms pumping at their offices.

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