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Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.36,0:00:17.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does a working mother look like?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.24,0:00:20.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you ask the Internet,\Nthis is what you'll be told.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.52,0:00:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never mind that this is\Nwhat you'll actually produce
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.97,0:00:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you attempt to work at a computer\Nwith a baby on your lap.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.88,0:00:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.44,0:00:32.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But no, this isn't a working mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.36,0:00:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll notice a theme in these photos.\NWe'll look at a lot of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.56,0:00:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That theme is amazing natural lighting,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.00,0:00:41.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, as we all know,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.16,0:00:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the hallmark\Nof every American workplace.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.36,0:00:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are thousands of images like these.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.84,0:00:52.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just put the term "working mother"\Ninto any Google image search engine,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.28,0:00:53.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stock photo site.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.56,0:00:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're all over the Internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.04,0:00:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're topping\Nblog posts and news pieces,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.44,0:01:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've become kind of obsessed with them\Nand the lie that they tell us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.80,0:01:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the comfort that they give us,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.80,0:01:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when it comes\Nto new working motherhood in America,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.24,0:01:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything's fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.04,0:01:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.64,0:01:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a country, we are sending\Nmillions of women back to work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.08,0:01:18.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every year, incredibly\Nand kind of horrifically soon
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.04,0:01:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after they give birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.72,0:01:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a moral problem
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.44,0:01:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but today I'm also going to tell you\Nwhy it's an economic problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.36,0:01:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got so annoyed and obsessed\Nwith the unreality of these images,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.00,0:01:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which look nothing like my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.04,0:01:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I recently decided to shoot and star\Nin a parody series of stock photos
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.24,0:01:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I hoped the world would start to use
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.40,0:01:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just showing the really awkward reality\Nof going back to work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.68,0:01:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when your baby's food source\Nis attached to your body.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.32,0:01:49.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just going to show you two of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.72,0:01:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.80,0:01:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing says "Give that girl a promotion"\Nlike leaking breast milk
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.92,0:01:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through your dress during a presentation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.08,0:01:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll notice that there's\Nno baby in this photo,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.52,0:02:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's not how this works,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.16,0:02:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not for most working mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.52,0:02:06.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you know, and this will ruin your day,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.60,0:02:09.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that every time a toilet is flushed,\Nits contents are aerosolized
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.80,0:02:12.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they'll stay airborne for hours?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.24,0:02:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, for many new working mothers,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.00,0:02:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the only place during the day\Nthat they can find to make food
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.28,0:02:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for their newborn babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.88,0:02:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put these things,\Na whole dozen of them, into the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.36,0:02:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to make a point.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.00,0:02:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know what I was also doing\Nwas opening a door,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.44,0:02:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because now, total strangers\Nfrom all walks of life
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.00,0:02:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,write to me all the time
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.96,0:02:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to tell me what it's like\Nfor them to go back to work
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.84,0:02:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within days or weeks of having a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.88,0:02:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to share\N10 of their stories with you today.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.48,0:02:47.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are totally real,\Nsome of them are very raw,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.88,0:02:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not one of them\Nlooks anything like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.36,0:02:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the first.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.16,0:02:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I was an active duty\Nservice member at a federal prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.88,0:03:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I returned to work after the maximum\Nallowed eight weeks for my C-section.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.28,0:03:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A male coworker was annoyed\Nthat I had been out on 'vacation,'
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.36,0:03:09.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so he intentionally opened the door on me\Nwhile I was pumping breast milk
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.81,0:03:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stood in the doorway\Nwith inmates in the hallway."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.88,0:03:17.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the stories that these women,\Ntotal strangers, send to me now,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.20,0:03:19.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not actually even about breastfeeding.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.48,0:03:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A woman wrote to me to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.40,0:03:26.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I gave birth to twins and went back\Nto work after seven unpaid weeks.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.20,0:03:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emotionally, I was a wreck.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.88,0:03:32.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Physically, I had a severe hemorrhage\Nduring labor, and major tearing,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.24,0:03:34.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I could barely get up, sit or walk.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.00,0:03:38.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My employer told me I wasn't allowed\Nto use my available vacation days
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.88,0:03:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it was budget season."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.80,0:03:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've come to believe that we can't look\Nsituations like these in the eye
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.44,0:03:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because then we'd be horrified,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.28,0:03:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we get horrified\Nthen we have to do something about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.36,0:03:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we choose to look at,\Nand believe, this image.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.24,0:03:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't really know\Nwhat's going on in this picture,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.72,0:04:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I find it weird\Nand slightly creepy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.40,0:04:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.84,0:04:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, what is she doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.08,0:04:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I know what it tells us.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.12,0:04:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It tells us that everything's fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.68,0:04:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This working mother, all working mothers\Nand all of their babies, are fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.44,0:04:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing to see here.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.44,0:04:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And anyway, women have made a choice,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.88,0:04:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so none of it's even our problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.20,0:04:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to break this choice thing\Ndown into two parts.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.16,0:04:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first choice says\Nthat women have chosen to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.80,0:04:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that's not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.04,0:04:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today in America, women make up\N47 percent of the workforce,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.28,0:04:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in 40 percent of American households
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.28,0:04:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a woman is the sole\Nor primary breadwinner.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.84,0:04:45.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our paid work is a part, a huge part,\Nof the engine of this economy,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.40,0:04:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is essential\Nfor the engines of our families.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.20,0:04:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On a national level,\Nour paid work is not optional.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.40,0:04:55.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choice number two says that women\Nare choosing to have babies,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.36,0:04:58.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so women alone should bear\Nthe consequences of those choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.20,0:05:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, that's one of those things
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.00,0:05:04.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when you hear it in passing,\Ncan sound correct.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.48,0:05:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't make you have a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.93,0:05:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I certainly wasn't there\Nwhen that happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.48,0:05:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that stance\Nignores a fundamental truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.08,0:05:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is that our procreation\Non a national scale is not optional.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.00,0:05:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The babies that women, many of them\Nworking women, are having today,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.52,0:05:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will one day fill our workforce,\Nprotect our shores,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.76,0:05:28.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make up our tax base.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.60,0:05:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our procreation\Non a national scale is not optional.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.80,0:05:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These aren't choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.20,0:05:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need women to work.\NWe need working women to have babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.04,0:05:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we should make\Ndoing those things at the same time
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.54,0:05:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least palatable, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.96,0:05:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, this is pop quiz time:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.68,0:05:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what percentage of working\Nwomen in America do you think
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.64,0:05:52.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have no access to paid maternity leave?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.44,0:05:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,88 percent.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.87,0:05:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,88 percent of working mothers\Nwill not get one minute of paid leave
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.04,0:06:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after they have a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.68,0:06:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now you're thinking about unpaid leave.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.32,0:06:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It exists in America.\NIt's called FMLA. It does not work.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.92,0:06:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because of the way it's structured,\Nall kinds of exceptions,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.92,0:06:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,half of new mothers are ineligible for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.96,0:06:16.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's what that looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.32,0:06:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We adopted our son.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.16,0:06:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I got the call, the day he was born,\NI had to take off work.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.40,0:06:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had not been there long enough\Nto qualify for FMLA,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.56,0:06:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I wasn't eligible for unpaid leave.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.32,0:06:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I took time off\Nto meet my newborn son,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.76,0:06:33.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lost my job."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.84,0:06:40.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These corporate stock photos\Nhide another reality, another layer.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.76,0:06:44.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of those who do have access\Nto just that unpaid leave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.40,0:06:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most women can't afford\Nto take much of it at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.60,0:06:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A nurse told me, "I didn't qualify\Nfor short-term disability
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.12,0:06:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my pregnancy\Nwas considered a preexisting condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.20,0:06:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We used up all of our tax returns\Nand half of our savings
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.89,0:06:59.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during my six unpaid weeks.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.76,0:07:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just couldn't manage any longer.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.52,0:07:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Physically it was hard,\Nbut emotionally it was worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.08,0:07:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I struggled for months\Nbeing away from my son."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.08,0:07:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this decision\Nto go back to work so early,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.00,0:07:14.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a rational economic decision\Ndriven by family finances,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.20,0:07:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's often physically horrific
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.48,0:07:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because putting a human\Ninto the world is messy.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.04,0:07:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A waitress told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.48,0:07:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"With my first baby, I was back at work\Nfive weeks postpartum.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.04,0:07:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With my second, I had to have\Nmajor surgery after giving birth,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.12,0:07:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I waited until six weeks to go back.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.16,0:07:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had third degree tears."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.88,0:07:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,23 percent of new\Nworking mothers in America
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.96,0:07:42.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be back on the job\Nwithin two weeks of giving birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.32,0:07:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I worked as a bartender and cook,\Naverage of 75 hours a week while pregnant.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.00,0:07:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to return to work\Nbefore my baby was a month old,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.64,0:07:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working 60 hours a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.68,0:07:58.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of my coworkers was only able\Nto afford 10 days off with her baby."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.76,0:08:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, this isn't just a scenario\Nwith economic and physical implications.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.96,0:08:08.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Childbirth is, and always will be,\Nan enormous psychological event.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.16,0:08:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A teacher told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.28,0:08:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I returned to work\Neight weeks after my son was born.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.28,0:08:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I already suffer from anxiety,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.20,0:08:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the panic attacks I had prior\Nto returning to work were unbearable."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.32,0:08:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Statistically speaking,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.44,0:08:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the shorter a woman's leave\Nafter having a baby,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.16,0:08:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more likely she will be to suffer\Nfrom postpartum mood disorders
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.40,0:08:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like depression and anxiety,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.52,0:08:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and among many potential\Nconsequences of those disorders,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.56,0:08:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suicide is the second\Nmost common cause of death
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.72,0:08:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a woman's first year postpartum.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.24,0:08:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Heads up that this next story --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.84,0:08:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never met this woman,\Nbut I find it hard to get through.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.44,0:08:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I feel tremendous grief and rage\Nthat I lost an essential,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.64,0:08:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,irreplaceable and formative\Ntime with my son.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.52,0:08:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Labor and delivery\Nleft me feeling absolutely broken.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.96,0:09:03.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For months, all I remember\Nis the screaming: colic, they said.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.64,0:09:05.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the inside, I was drowning.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.80,0:09:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every morning, I asked myself\Nhow much longer I could do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.52,0:09:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was allowed to bring my baby to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.72,0:09:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I closed my office door\Nwhile I rocked and shushed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.88,0:09:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and begged him to stop screaming\Nso I wouldn't get in trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.40,0:09:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hid behind that office door\Nevery damn day
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.48,0:09:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and cried while he screamed.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.44,0:09:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cried in the bathroom\Nwhile I washed out the pump equipment.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.12,0:09:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day, I cried all the way to work\Nand all the way home again.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.28,0:09:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I promised my boss that the work\NI didn't get done during the day,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.44,0:09:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd make up at night from home.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.12,0:09:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, there's just something\Nwrong with me that I can't swing this."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.52,0:09:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So those are the mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.16,0:09:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What of the babies?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.96,0:09:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a country, do we care\Nabout the millions of babies
Dialogue: 0,0:09:47.48,0:09:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,born every year to working mothers?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.36,0:09:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say we don't,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.72,0:09:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not until they're of working\Nand tax-paying and military-serving age.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.20,0:09:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tell them we'll see them in 18 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.13,0:09:57.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and getting there is kind of on them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.85,0:10:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the reasons I know this\Nis that babies whose mothers
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.64,0:10:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have 12 or more weeks at home with them
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.96,0:10:08.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are more likely to get their vaccinations\Nand their well checks in their first year,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.96,0:10:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so those babies are more protected\Nfrom deadly and disabling diseases.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.68,0:10:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But those things are hidden\Nbehind images like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.28,0:10:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,America has a message for new mothers\Nwho work and for their babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.80,0:10:29.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever time you get together,\Nyou should be grateful for it,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.60,0:10:32.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're an inconvenience
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.36,0:10:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the economy and to your employers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.40,0:10:39.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That narrative of gratitude\Nruns through a lot of the stories I hear.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.96,0:10:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A woman told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.64,0:10:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I went back at eight weeks\Nafter my C-section
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.84,0:10:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my husband was out of work.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.68,0:10:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without me, my daughter\Nhad failure to thrive.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.44,0:10:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She wouldn't take a bottle.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.76,0:10:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She started losing weight.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.40,0:10:54.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thankfully, my manager\Nwas very understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.24,0:10:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He let my mom bring my baby,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.80,0:10:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was on oxygen and a monitor,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.12,0:11:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,four times a shift so I could nurse her."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.96,0:11:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a little club\Nof countries in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.36,0:11:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that offer no national\Npaid leave to new mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.24,0:11:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Care to guess who they are?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.72,0:11:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first eight make up eight million\Nin total population.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.68,0:11:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are Papua New Guinea,\NSuriname and the tiny island nations
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.20,0:11:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Micronesia, Marshall Islands,\NNauru, Niue, Palau and Tonga.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.44,0:11:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number nine is the United\NStates of America,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.84,0:11:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with 320 million people.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.32,0:11:33.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, that's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.68,0:11:36.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the end of the list.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.28,0:11:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every other economy on the planet
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.92,0:11:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has found a way to make some level\Nof national paid leave work
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.84,0:11:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the people doing the work\Nof the future of those countries,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.84,0:11:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we say,\N"We couldn't possibly do that."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.92,0:11:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We say that the market\Nwill solve this problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.44,0:11:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we cheer when corporations\Noffer even more paid leave to the women
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.80,0:11:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are already the highest-educated\Nand highest-paid among us.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.08,0:12:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember that 88 percent?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.92,0:12:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those middle- and low-income women\Nare not going to participate in that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.88,0:12:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that there are staggering\Neconomic, financial, physical
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.36,0:12:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and emotional costs to this approach.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.92,0:12:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have decided --\Ndecided, not an accident,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.96,0:12:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pass these costs directly\Non to working mothers and their babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.92,0:12:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know the price tag is higher\Nfor low-income women,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.60,0:12:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,therefore disproportionately\Nfor women of color.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.40,0:12:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pass them on anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.88,0:12:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this is to America's shame.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.52,0:12:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's also to America's risk.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.44,0:12:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because what would happen
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.36,0:12:42.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if all of these individual\Nso-called choices to have babies
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.44,0:12:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started to turn into individual choices\Nnot to have babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.32,0:12:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One woman told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.04,0:12:52.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"New motherhood is hard.\NIt shouldn't be traumatic.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.32,0:12:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we talk about expanding\Nour family now,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.60,0:12:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we focus on how much time I would have\Nto care for myself and a new baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.92,0:13:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we were to have to do it again\Nthe same way as with our first,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.24,0:13:03.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we might stick with one kid."
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.80,0:13:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The birthrate needed in America\Nto keep the population stable
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.72,0:13:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is 2.1 live births per woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.88,0:13:13.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In America today, we are at 1.86.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.88,0:13:17.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need women to have babies,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.20,0:13:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are actively disincentivizing\Nworking women from doing that.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.76,0:13:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would happen to work force,\Nto innovation, to GDP,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.00,0:13:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if one by one, the working mothers\Nof this country were to decide
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.16,0:13:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they can't bear\Nto do this thing more than once?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.68,0:13:37.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm here today with only\None idea worth spreading,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.20,0:13:39.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've guessed what it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.36,0:13:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is long since time\Nfor the most powerful country on Earth
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.08,0:13:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to offer national paid leave
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.16,0:13:47.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the people doing the work\Nof the future of this country
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.90,0:13:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to the babies\Nwho represent that future.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.80,0:13:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Childbirth is a public good.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.96,0:13:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This leave should be state-subsidized.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.52,0:13:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It should have no exceptions\Nfor small businesses,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.04,0:14:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,length of employment or entrepreneurs.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.52,0:14:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It should be able\Nto be shared between partners.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.92,0:14:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've talked today a lot about mothers,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:04.92,0:14:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but co-parents matter on so many levels.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.52,0:14:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one more woman\Nshould have to go back to work
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.64,0:14:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while she is hobbling and bleeding.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.84,0:14:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one more family should have\Nto drain their savings account
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.52,0:14:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to buy a few days\Nof rest and recovery and bonding.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.20,0:14:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one more fragile infant
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.52,0:14:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should have to go directly\Nfrom the incubator to day care
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.48,0:14:31.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because his parents have used up\Nall of their meager time
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.20,0:14:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sitting in the NICU.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.84,0:14:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one more working family\Nshould be told that the collision
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.72,0:14:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of their work, their needed work\Nand their needed parenthood,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.08,0:14:41.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is their problem alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.76,0:14:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The catch is that when this is happening\Nto a new family, it is consuming,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.44,0:14:50.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a family with a new baby\Nis more financially vulnerable
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.24,0:14:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they've ever been before,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:51.72,0:14:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that new mother cannot afford\Nto speak up on her own behalf.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.68,0:14:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all of us have voices.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.92,0:15:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am done, done having babies,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.52,0:15:03.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you might be pre-baby,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.40,0:15:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you might be post-baby,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.80,0:15:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you might be no baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.44,0:15:08.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It should not matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.32,0:15:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to stop framing this\Nas a mother's issue,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.76,0:15:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even a women's issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.48,0:15:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an American issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.20,0:15:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to stop buying the lie\Nthat these images tell us.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.72,0:15:21.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to stop being comforted by them.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.00,0:15:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to question\Nwhy we're told that this can't work
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.68,0:15:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we see it work\Neverywhere all over the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.00,0:15:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to recognize\Nthat this American reality
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.80,0:15:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to our dishonor and to our peril.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.44,0:15:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because this is not,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.64,0:15:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is not,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.28,0:15:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is not\Nwhat a working mother looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.20,0:15:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)