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Maternity Leave


The topic of “Maternity Leave” itself has been a problem that I have been interested/aware of lately. My encounter with the problem was mainly back in Korea. Not just as an artist, but also in socially common jobs have the underlining avoidance of female employees that are going on/ planning on have a baby. While a lot of countries in Europe have pro-maternal welfare system, Korean female employees are secretly laid off mysteriously around the time of the supposed maternity leave. Even while in job interviews, they are asked the rude question of if they have any significant other one, if they are planning to get married or even to the point of if they are planning to have a child. This rude question is so commonly asked that it comes to a point that socially, females are to either get married then stay at home or to not get married at all. The over population of young females applying for government issued jobs are also because of the maternity leave; the government issued jobs are one of the only jobs that ensures them to have a maternity leave. This is not a problem of if one is not skilled or fit for the job; it’s about female employees not being treated with respect and avoided because it’s a burden for a company to endure the “Paid vacation”. Maternity is a scared and a should-be-celebrated phenomenon that we should have accepted to the society long time ago.

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