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The nine-month notice period before your body and schedule both become shared property.
means The state of being a mother, or the period and systems surrounding pregnancy and childbirth.
from From French maternité, built on Latin mater, 'mother' — the same root that gives English 'maternal' and 'matrix.' The Latin mater itself descends from a very old Indo-European word for mother, one of the most stable words across languages, likely echoing the babbling 'ma' sound babies make early on.
- legal origin
- from latin mater, codified into leave law only in 1900s
- global gap
- US guarantees zero paid weeks federally, unlike 120+ other countries
- longest leave
- bulgaria offers over a year at near-full pay
- hospital irony
- maternity wards are often the busiest, least slept-in place on earth