Jessica Shortall: The US needs paid family leave -- for the sake of its future
Jessica Shortall: Amerika yeni ebeveynleri ve bebeklerini nasıl yüzüstü bırakıyor
Jessica Shortall is a working mom of two and author of Work. Pump. Repeat: The New Mom's Survival Guide to Breastfeeding and Going Back to Work. Full bio
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this is what you'll be told.
size gösterilen bu olacaktır.
what you'll actually produce
denerseniz
with a baby on your lap.
üreteceğinize aldırmayın.
We'll look at a lot of them.
Bir çoğuna bakacağız.
of every American workplace.
into any Google image search engine,
mevcut fotoğraf sitesinde
blog posts and news pieces,
and the lie that they tell us
ve bize verdikleri avuntu konusunda
to new working motherhood in America,
millions of women back to work
kadını doğumlarından
and kind of horrifically soon
why it's an economic problem.
ekonomik bir problem olduğunu anlatacağım.
with the unreality of these images,
oldukça rahatsızım ve buna kafayı taktım
in a parody series of stock photos
umuduyla mevcut fotoğraflarla
bağlı iken işe dönmenin
of going back to work
başrol oynadığı parodi serisi
is attached to your body.
like leaking breast milk
anne sütü sızan birisine
no baby in this photo,
bilmeseniz daha iyi ama,
its contents are aerosolized
that they can find to make food
yeni doğan bebekleri için
a whole dozen of them, into the world.
dünyasına koydum.
was opening a door,
açtığını da bilmiyordum,
from all walks of life
hiç tanımadığım kadınlar bana
for them to go back to work
10 of their stories with you today.
10 tanesini paylaşacağım.
some of them are very raw,
looks anything like this.
service member at a federal prison.
aktif hizmet görevlisiydim.
allowed eight weeks for my C-section.
sekiz hafta sonra işe döndüm.
that I had been out on 'vacation,'
olan bir erkek iş arkadaşım
while I was pumping breast milk
with inmates in the hallway."
beraber kapıda dikildi."
total strangers, send to me now,
çoğunun bana gönderdiği hikayeler
to work after seven unpaid weeks.
yedi haftadan sonra işe döndüm.
during labor, and major tearing,
aşırı kanama ve aşırı yırtılma oldu,
oturuyor ve yürüyebiliyordum.
to use my available vacation days
situations like these in the eye
durumlara bu gözle
then we have to do something about it.
bir şey yapmamız gerekir.
and believe, this image.
inanmayı seçiyoruz.
what's going on in this picture,
aslında bilmiyorum
and slightly creepy.
biraz ürpertici buluyorum.
and all of their babies, are fine.
ve onların bebekleri gayet iyiler.
down into two parts.
iki kısıma ayırmak istiyorum.
that women have chosen to work.
47 percent of the workforce,
iş gücünün yüzde 47'sini oluşturuyor
or primary breadwinner.
of the engine of this economy,
sürdürülebilirliliğin büyük bir parçasıdır
for the engines of our families.
vazgeçilmezdir.
our paid work is not optional.
maaşlı iş isteğe bağlı değildir.
are choosing to have babies,
kadınlar bebek sahibi olmayı seçiyor,
the consequences of those choices.
tek başlarına katlanmalılar.
can sound correct.
when that happened.
ignores a fundamental truth,
isteğe bağlı olmadığı temel
on a national scale is not optional.
working women, are having today,
sahip olduğu bebekler
protect our shores,
hudutlarımızı koruyacak,
on a national scale is not optional.
isteğe bağlı değildir.
We need working women to have babies.
için çalışan kadınlara ihtiyacımız var.
doing those things at the same time
en azından hoş bir şekilde
women in America do you think
ücretli doğum izni hakkı olmayan
will not get one minute of paid leave
doğumdan sonra bir dakika bile
It's called FMLA. It does not work.
FMLA deniyor ama o çalışmıyor.
all kinds of exceptions,
istisnalardan dolayı
faydalanamıyor.
I had to take off work.
izne ayrılmak zorunda kaldım.
to qualify for FMLA,
uzun süre çalışmadım,
to meet my newborn son,
izin aldığımda da
hide another reality, another layer.
başka bir gerçeği de gizliyor.
to just that unpaid leave,
sahip olan çoğu kadın,
to take much of it at all.
for short-term disability
iş görmezlik halinden faydalanamadım
was considered a preexisting condition.
olarak görüldü.
and half of our savings
tüm vergi iadelerimizi ve
but emotionally it was worse.
duygusal olarak daha da kötüydü.
being away from my son."
to go back to work so early,
driven by family finances,
mantıklı ekonomik bir karar
into the world is messy.
karışık bir şey.
at work five weeks postpartum.
beş hafta sonra işe döndüm.
major surgery after giving birth,
ameliyat geçirmek zorunda kaldım,
altı hafta bekledim.
working mothers in America
annelerin yüzde 23'ü
within two weeks of giving birth.
average of 75 hours a week while pregnant.
75 saat barmen ve aşçı olarak çalıştım.
before my baby was a month old,
işe geri dönmek zorunda kaldım
to afford 10 days off with her baby."
sadece 10 gün kalmayı karşılayabildi."
with economic and physical implications.
ekonomik ve fiziksel değil.
an enormous psychological event.
ve daima öyle olacaktır.
eight weeks after my son was born.
işe dönmek zorunda kaldım.
to returning to work were unbearable."
panik ataklar katlanılmazdı."
after having a baby,
from postpartum mood disorders
duygudurum bozukluğu yaşama ihtimali
consequences of those disorders,
birçok potansiyel sonuçları arasında
most common cause of death
but I find it hard to get through.
ama okuması bile zor geliyor.
that I lost an essential,
önemli bir zamanı kaybettiğim için
time with my son.
left me feeling absolutely broken.
tam olarak çökertti.
is the screaming: colic, they said.
çığlıklar: kolikmiş, öyle dediler.
how much longer I could do it.
yapabileceğimi soruyordum.
while I rocked and shushed
onu sallarken ve
so I wouldn't get in trouble.
ofis kapımı kapattım.
every damn day
ofis kapısının arkasına
while I washed out the pump equipment.
tuvalette ağladım.
and all the way home again.
eve dönerken yolda ağladım.
I didn't get done during the day,
evde gece yetiştireceğimi
wrong with me that I can't swing this."
bir eksiklik olduğunu düşündüm.
about the millions of babies
dünyaya getirdiği milyonlarca bebeği
and tax-paying and military-serving age.
askerlik çağına gelene kadar.
is that babies whose mothers
and their well checks in their first year,
kontrollere daha sık gidebiliyor,
from deadly and disabling diseases.
hastalıklara karşı daha korunmuş oluyor.
behind images like this.
resimlerin arkasına saklanıyor.
who work and for their babies.
ve bebeklerine bir mesajı var.
you should be grateful for it,
bunun için minnettar olmalısın
runs through a lot of the stories I hear.
duyduğum birçok hikayede var.
after my C-section
had failure to thrive.
was very understanding.
of countries in the world
ücretli izin vermeyen
paid leave to new mothers.
in total population.
sekiz milyon nüfusu var.
Suriname and the tiny island nations
ve küçük ada ülkeleri
Nauru, Niue, Palau and Tonga.
Nauru, Niue, Palau ve Tonga.
the United States of America,
of national paid leave work
of the future of those countries,
"We couldn't possibly do that."
will solve this problem,
çözeceğini söylüyoruz,
offer even more paid leave to the women
ve yüksek maaşlı kadınlara
and highest-paid among us.
are not going to participate in that.
kadınlar buna dahil olamayacak.
economic, financial, physical
bedelleri olduğunu biliyoruz.
decided, not an accident,
-tesadüfen değil-
on to working mothers and their babies.
ve bebeklerine kestik.
for low-income women,
daha yüksek olduğunu biliyoruz,
for women of color.
kadınlar için durum daha da kötü.
so-called choices to have babies
çocuk sahibi olma seçimlerini
not to have babies.
seçimine dönüştürürse ne olur?
It shouldn't be traumatic.
Bu travma olmamalı.
our family now,
to care for myself and a new baby.
ayırmam gerektiğine odaklanıyoruz.
the same way as with our first,
to keep the population stable
ihtiyaç duyulan doğurma oranı
working women from doing that.
aktif bir şekilde köstek oluyoruz.
to innovation, to GDP,
birer birer
of this country were to decide
katlanamayacağına karar verirse
to do this thing more than once?
yurt içi hasıla nasıl bir hal alır?
one idea worth spreading,
sadece bir fikirle geldim
for the most powerful country on Earth
of the future of this country
who represent that future.
for small businesses,
to be shared between partners.
should have to go back to work
ve kanaması varken
to drain their savings account
toparlanmak ve çocuğuyla ilgilenmek için
of rest and recovery and bonding.
zorunda kalmamalı.
from the incubator to day care
yoğun bakımda kullandığından dolayı
all of their meager time
should be told that the collision
and their needed parenthood,
ve ebeveynliklerinin sadece
to a new family, it is consuming,
başına geldiğinde tüketici oluyor
is more financially vulnerable
to speak up on her own behalf.
sesini yükseltemez.
as a mother's issue,
that these images tell us.
inanmayı bırakalım.
why we're told that this can't work
everywhere all over the world.
sorgulamamız gerek.
that this American reality
bizim için bir utanç kaynağı ve
what a working mother looks like.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jessica Shortall - Strategy consultant, social entrepreneur and authorJessica Shortall is a working mom of two and author of Work. Pump. Repeat: The New Mom's Survival Guide to Breastfeeding and Going Back to Work.
Why you should listen
What do breastfeeding and paid leave for working mothers, sustainable eye care, hunger, green investing, giving shoes and the business case for LGBT equality have in common?
For Jessica Shortall, they have all been opportunities to change the world: challenges that need sustainable solutions and require a deep understanding of market forces, audiences, and cultures. They all require an intense dive into data, and they all benefit from powerful storytelling.
Shortall has provided strategy consulting to dozens of businesses, social enterprises, non-profit organizations and campaigns in the US, UK and beyond. Her first book, Work. Pump. Repeat: The New Mom's Guide to Surviving Breastfeeding and Going Back to Work, was inspired by her own experiences of circumnavigating the globe with a breast pump. She interviewed hundreds of working mothers and dozens of HR professionals to create a practical, relatable, judgment-free guide for women who want to try to continue breastfeeding after they've returned to work.
Shortall started her adult life as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan, and she haven't stopped searching for ways to change the world since, across non-profit and for-profit worlds. In the early 2000s, she co-founded and franchised a non-profit organization that is now active in more than 40 communities. In 2006, she received an MBA with honors from the University of Oxford, as a Skoll Scholar in Social Entrepreneurship. She went on to spend three years providing consulting services to social entrepreneurs. From 2009 to 2014, she was the first Director of Giving at TOMS Shoes, hired to build out the now-iconic One for One giving mission and strategy.
She currently lives in Dallas, TX with her husband Clay and her two children.
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