There have been innumerable studies over the past few years about women returning to work after having a baby. Some focus on the guilt that many women with babies feel when they have to leave their precious bundle for the first time; others look at the support they receive in the workplace. Then there are the surveys that examine the adequacy or otherwise of maternity/paternity leave; the issue of parental leave and parent-friendly hours when the babies start school. So, how did it make you feel when you read that the headmistress of private school St Mary's Calne School, Wiltshire, returned to her desk just SEVEN hours after she had given birth to her third child? Dr Helen Wright tells The Daily Mail (February 7, 2010) that she believed she was setting a good example by taking her hours-old daughter Jessica to the office with her. "Most mothers want their daughters to have the exhilarating excitement of a career they love and the joy of a family," she tells the paper. "I have that and I want to show the girls at St Mary's that that is not an impossible dream."
There have been innumerable studies over the past few years about women returning to work after having a baby.
Some focus on the guilt that many women with babies feel when they have to leave their precious bundle for the first time; others look at the support they receive in the workplace.
Then there are the surveys that examine the adequacy or otherwise of maternity/paternity leave; the issue of parental leave and parent-friendly hours when the babies start school.
So, how did it make you feel when you read that the headmistress of private school St Mary's Calne School, Wiltshire, returned to her desk just SEVEN hours after she had given birth to her third child?
Dr Helen Wright tells The Daily Mail (February 7, 2010) that she believed she was setting a good example by taking her hours-old daughter Jessica to the office with her.
"Most mothers want their daughters to have the exhilarating excitement of a career they love and the joy of a family," she tells the paper.
"I have that and I want to show the girls at St Mary's that that is not an impossible dream."
