Jessica Shortall: The US needs paid family leave -- for the sake of its future
جسیکا شورتال: آمریکا برای آینده بهتر خود نیازمند پرداخت مرخصی با حقوق برای بانوان شاغلی است که زایمان می کنند.
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.
این نتایجی است که به شما گفنه میشود
what you'll actually produce
این عاید شما میشه
with a baby on your lap.
با کامپیوتر کار کنید.
We'll look at a lot of them.
یک الگویی در این عکسها می بینیم.
of every American workplace.
into any Google image search engine,
در موتورجستجوی گوگل تصاویر
blog posts and news pieces,
and the lie that they tell us
و دروغی است که آنها به ما میگویند
to new working motherhood in America,
تازه وضع حمل کرده
millions of women back to work
هر سال به کار بر میگردانیم
and kind of horrifically soon
why it's an economic problem.
که چرا این یک مشکل اقتصادی هم هست.
with the unreality of these images,
in a parody series of stock photos
که در این آرشیوها استفاده بشود
of going back to work
is attached to your body.
متصل به بدن شما است.
like leaking breast milk
به آن خانم ارتقا درجه بدیم
no baby in this photo,
در این عکس دیده نمیشود،
its contents are aerosolized
به شکل ذرات معلق در هوا می ماند
that they can find to make food
که آنها هر روز غذای نوزادشان را
a whole dozen of them, into the world.
در معرض دید جهان قرار دادم
was opening a door,
گشایش روزنه جدیدی بود،
from all walks of life
افرادی از قشرهای متفاوت
for them to go back to work
که برگشتن سر کار
چگونه است.
10 of their stories with you today.
با شما در میان میگذارم.
some of them are very raw,
و برخی واقعا کمیاب هستند
looks anything like this.
service member at a federal prison.
allowed eight weeks for my C-section.
و من سرکار برگشتم.
that I had been out on 'vacation,'
عصبانی شده بود،
while I was pumping breast milk
در را باز می کرد
with inmates in the hallway."
total strangers, send to me now,
خانم های غریبه برای من نوشتند
to work after seven unpaid weeks.
برای دنیا آوردن دو قلوهام به کار برگشتم
during labor, and major tearing,
و پارگیهای زیاد حین عمل جراحی داشتم
بلند بشوم و یا راه بروم
to use my available vacation days
که از مرخصی هایم نمیتونم استفاده کنم
situations like these in the eye
نیز سخت است
then we have to do something about it.
باید در این خصوص کاری بکنیم
and believe, this image.
که این عکسهارو ببینیم و باور کنیم
what's going on in this picture,
در این عکس چه خبر است،
and slightly creepy.
and all of their babies, are fine.
و نوزادانشون خوب هستند.
down into two parts.
به دو بخش تقسیم کنم
that women have chosen to work.
47 percent of the workforce,
۴۷ درصد از نیروی کار بانوان هستند
or primary breadwinner.
of the engine of this economy,
موتور محرک اقتصاد کشور است
for the engines of our families.
our paid work is not optional.
are choosing to have babies,
بچه دار شدن دست خانمهاست،
the consequences of those choices.
can sound correct.
when that happened.
ignores a fundamental truth,
درنظر نمی گیره،
on a national scale is not optional.
در سطح ملی انتخابی نیست
working women, are having today,
بسیاری از آنها زنان شاغل، دارند
protect our shores,
از سواحل ما محافظت می کنند،
on a national scale is not optional.
We need working women to have babies.
برای داشتن فرزندان،
doing those things at the same time
women in America do you think
will not get one minute of paid leave
It's called FMLA. It does not work.
در آمریکا وجود دارد.
all kinds of exceptions,
اجرایی نیست
I had to take off work.
مجبور بودم مرخصی بگیرم
to qualify for FMLA,
to meet my newborn son,
hide another reality, another layer.
آنهم از جنبه دیگر،
to just that unpaid leave,
to take much of it at all.
for short-term disability
"از کار افتادگی کوتاه مدت شامل من نشد
was considered a preexisting condition.
در نظر گرفتند
and half of our savings
و نیمی از پس اندازمون خرج شد
but emotionally it was worse.
being away from my son."
از پسرم دور نگه دارم."
to go back to work so early,
driven by family finances,
بر پایه شرایط اقتصادی خانواده است.
از نظر جسمی وحشتناک است
into the world is messy.
بسیارپیچیده است.
at work five weeks postpartum.
پنج هفته پس از زایمان به کار برگشتم.
major surgery after giving birth,
مجبور بودم جراحی عمیقی انجام بدم
working mothers in America
within two weeks of giving birth.
به کار بر میگردند
average of 75 hours a week while pregnant.
در حالی که باردار بودم کار میکردم
before my baby was a month old,
to afford 10 days off with her baby."
۱۰ روز مرخصی برای فرزندش را متحمل بشود."
with economic and physical implications.
با پیامدهای جسمی و اقتصادی نیست
an enormous psychological event.
eight weeks after my son was born.
to returning to work were unbearable."
غیر قابل تحمل بود"
after having a baby,
from postpartum mood disorders
بیشتر است
consequences of those disorders,
most common cause of death
but I find it hard to get through.
اما دلم نیامد ازداستانش بگذرم.
that I lost an essential,
time with my son.
left me feeling absolutely broken.
is the screaming: colic, they said.
فقط نفخ داشتم و داد می زدم.
how much longer I could do it.
که تا چه زمانی میتوانم تحمل کنم.
while I rocked and shushed
so I wouldn't get in trouble.
تا من به دردسرنیفتم.
every damn day
while I washed out the pump equipment.
وقتی که لوازم دوشیدن شیرم را میشستم،
and all the way home again.
و خانه به کار را گریه می کردم
I didn't get done during the day,
wrong with me that I can't swing this."
از پس این موضوع بر بیایم."
about the millions of babies
آیا به میلیونها کودک توجه میکنیم؟
and tax-paying and military-serving age.
پرداخت مالیات وسربازی برسند.
is that babies whose mothers
اینه که بچه هایی که مادرانشان
and their well checks in their first year,
و دیگر چکاپ های سال اول خوبی خواهند داشت
from deadly and disabling diseases.
behind images like this.
پشت این عکسها پنهان شده است.
who work and for their babies.
و بچه هاشون پیامی دارد
you should be grateful for it,
باید برای آن شکرگزار باشید
runs through a lot of the stories I hear.
در بسیاری از داستانها می شنوم
after my C-section
had failure to thrive.
بلد نبود از شیشه شیر بخورد.
was very understanding.
of countries in the world
paid leave to new mothers.
in total population.
Suriname and the tiny island nations
Nauru, Niue, Palau and Tonga.
نیوئه، پالائو و تونگا هستند.
the United States of America,
of national paid leave work
راهی پیدا کرده است
of the future of those countries,
"We couldn't possibly do that."
"ما احتمالا نمی توانیم آن را انجام بدیم."
will solve this problem,
offer even more paid leave to the women
حقوق بیشتری برای مرخصی زایمان می دهند.
and highest-paid among us.
are not going to participate in that.
economic, financial, physical
decided, not an accident,
on to working mothers and their babies.
for low-income women,
سنگین است.
for women of color.
so-called choices to have babies
not to have babies.
It shouldn't be traumatic.
our family now,
to care for myself and a new baby.
the same way as with our first,
to keep the population stable
working women from doing that.
از این کار دلزده میکنیم
to innovation, to GDP,
مبتکران و پزشکان می افتد
of this country were to decide
to do this thing more than once?
one idea worth spreading,
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
to drain their savings account
نباید پس انداز خودش راخرج کند
of rest and recovery and bonding.
from the incubator to day care
مستقیم به خانه برود
all of their meager time
should be told that the collision
and their needed parenthood,
to a new family, it is consuming,
برای یک خانواده تازه این اتفاق می افتد
is more financially vulnerable
to speak up on her own behalf.
as a mother's issue,
that these images tell us.
why we're told that this can't work
که چرا میگویند این قابل اجرا نیست؟
everywhere all over the world.
that this American reality
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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