The pregnancy penalty - what a sad concept to now understand. And yet it truly does exist. After sharing the news of my engagement with my boss and telling him how great I'd timed my wedding in relation to the performance year and to still be promoted to manager, he immediately joked that if I didn't make manager I could always have a baby. I'm lucky too (even with such a joke) because my workplace does protect pregnancy leave and prides itself on providing paid family leave for both mom's and dad's, but some aren't so lucky as she said.

Amazingly researched and well thought out article and it's so cool how her job directly correlated to her own experiences and she was able to develop the article by way of living it.