Ain’t no hate read like the one by the spoiled, entitled, childless woman hate read, AM I RIGHT? Case in point: The currently blowing up on the New York Post feature by author Meghann Foye with the napalm-grade title “I want all the perks of maternity leave — without having any kids.” Foye is the author of a new novel called “Meternity,” the story of a thirtysomething editor who, “like everyone in New York media runs on cupcakes, caffeine and cocktails,” and who comedically decides to parlay a workplace misunderstanding into an unearned maternity leave. In real life, she is a 38 year-old Web editor for a women’s magazine who used her own career crossroads as inspiration for her fiction. As she writes in the Post, “After ten years of working in a job where I was always on deadline, I couldn’t help but feel envious when parents on staff left the office at 6 p.m.
Yes, Non-parents “deserve” Maternity Leave — we Could All Use A Break For “self-reflection”
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon: Movie
Thu, 04/28/2016 - 1:17pm
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