What we can learn from the Brazilian experience about the reality of maternal bias and what managers can do better.
Laura had had a stellar career in a Brazilian financial services company. She was recognized by senior leadership and always put forward for new roles and challenges. Until she reached her early thirties and got married. Suddenly she started getting questions about her “future plans” and receiving excuses about why she wasn’t put forward for a promotion. After 12 years in the company, she felt stagnated and decided to leave.
Monica was fired on the day she returned from her maternity leave. The company was going through cost cutting and in her absence, her position was eliminated. The economy was is recession so it took her a while to find another job and she had to take a pay cut. Pregnancy discrimination in Brazil is illegal but these practices are socially accepted and in some companies, are standard procedures. Everyone knows that this happens, shrugs their shoulders when and if pressed too hard about it brings an example of that one woman they knew who used her pregnancy to avoid working. It is hard to change a practice when it is normalized by a large part of society., but there are structural efforts aiming to eradicate it.
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