Archive for October 2016

5Pregnancy-parenting/ workplace conflicts and tribunal procedures It should never be forgotten that tribunals exist for users, and not the other way round. No matter how good tribunals may be, they do not fulfil their function unless they are accessible by the people who want to use them, and unless the . . . Read more

2The scope and nature of pregnancy-parenting/ workplace conflicts No self-respecting small businessmen with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of childbearing age. UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom cited in The Telegraph (21 July 2004) Introduction As chapter 1 suggests, in the twenty-first century we have witnessed . . . Read more

6Challenging and reforming pregnancy-parenting/ workplace regulation In a changed world – one in which women were valued as earners and men as carers and both could choose to engage in the care-giving without costly employment penalties – how would men and women choose to allocate their time between the market . . . Read more