As for lactating, I have had experience with friends and coworkers needing to pump- IMMEDIATELY- to avoid mastitis. This is not that situation.

Boom. Excellent point. I wonder if a visiting dignitary or important client who also happened to be a nursing mother would be told to "go home and be with her baby" if she requested access to the lactation room.

She didn't wait until the last minute. She called work while she was still on maternity leave and inquired about breast pumping facilities. They told her she could use the lactation room and didn't breathe word about paperwork or special clearance, which is probably why she failed to psychically it might be necessary.

Also, companies have an obligation to communicate essential health and safety information (which "access procedures for lactation rooms" absolutely falls under) to employees transparently and through multiple channels. What you seem to be suggesting is that, while at home, on maternity leave, recovering from a…

You're talking about lactating like it's a non-urgent desire as opposed to a physical need. Like Ames wanted to use the company squash courts for a quick game and threw a temper tantrum when they didn't give her immediate access. This situation is more like telling a newly-disabled employee that he has to wait three…

Yeah, no. The actual technical process for updating keycards takes basically no time. Sure, the turnaround can take a couple of days if you need it non-urgently, but there is literally NO REASON someone couldn't have made a phonecall to be like "Hello, due to a communication breakdown, we have a nursing employee who…

It's not like this is somebody that's been prosecuted and found guilty of something, and you can then go, 'I don't support this lifestyle or whatever.' I mean, it's all guesswork."

YES YES YES. Thank you for providing me for a pitch perfect response for concern trolls who are just soooooooo worried that all the poor feminists are going to be soooooooo lonely and sad because all they really want in life is to settle down into a blissful married life as a combo glorified servant/fucktoy with the…

This video is why fans and smelling salts need to come back into popular usage. Because SWOON.