Thursday, December 5, 2019

TOP TAKE-AWAY: BREAKING THE SILENCE IN THE WORKPLACE

For those of you who have experienced pregnancy loss, you are quite familiar with the silence that surrounds it. This is especially true in the workplace. Approximately 47% of women in the workplace have experienced a miscarriage and have grieved in silence because of the perception that society is not open to hearing womens’ stories of loss. This results in silence becoming a default response and women keeping their pregnancy a secret in the workplace in fear of being judged by their co-workers. Often times, when women share their experience of miscarriage at work, their co-workers do not know how to handle or respond to the situation - further enforcing the belief that women should not share their feelings of loss and grief.