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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.36,0:00:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does a working mother look like?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.24,0:00:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you ask the Internet,\Nthis is what you'll be told.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.52,0:00:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never mind that this is\Nwhat you'll actually produce
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.96,0:00:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you attempt to work at a computer\Nwith a baby on your lap.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.88,0:00:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.44,0:00:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But no, this is a working mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.36,0:00:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll notice a theme in these photos.\NWe'll look at a lot of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.56,0:00:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That theme is amazing natural lighting,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.00,0:00:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, as we all know,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.16,0:00:31.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the hallmark\Nof every American workplace.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.36,0:00:34.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are thousands of images like these.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.84,0:00:38.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just put the term "working mother"\Ninto any Google Image search engine,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.28,0:00:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stock photo site.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.56,0:00:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're all over the Internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.04,0:00:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're topping\Nblog posts and news pieces,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.44,0:00:47.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I've become kind of obsessed with them\Nand the lie that they tell us
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.80,0:00:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the comfort that they give us,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.80,0:00:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when it comes\Nto new working motherhood in America,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.24,0:00:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything's fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.04,0:00:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.64,0:01:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a country, we are sending\Nmillions of women back to work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.08,0:01:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every year, incredibly\Nand kind of horrifically soon
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.04,0:01:05.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after they give birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.72,0:01:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's a moral problem
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.44,0:01:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but today I'm also going to tell you\Nwhy it's an economic problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.36,0:01:14.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got so annoyed and obsessed\Nwith the unreality of these images,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.00,0:01:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which look nothing like my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.04,0:01:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I recently decided to shoot and star\Nin a parody series of stock photos
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.24,0:01:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I hoped the world would start to use
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.40,0:01:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just showing the really awkward reality\Nof going back to work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.68,0:01:32.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when your baby's food source\Nis attached to your body.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.32,0:01:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just going to show you two of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.72,0:01:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.80,0:01:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing says "Give that girl a promotion"\Nlike leaking breast milk
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.92,0:01:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through your dress during a presentation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.08,0:01:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll notice that there's\Nno baby in this photo,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.52,0:01:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that's not how this works,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.16,0:01:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not for most working mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.52,0:01:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you know, and this will ruin your day,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.60,0:01:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that every time a toilet is flushed,\Nits contents are aerosolized
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.80,0:01:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they'll stay airborne for hours?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.24,0:02:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, for many new working mothers,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.00,0:02:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the only place during the day\Nthat they can find to make food
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.28,0:02:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for their newborn babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.88,0:02:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put these things,\Na whole dozen of them, into the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.36,0:02:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to make a point.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.00,0:02:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know what I was also doing\Nwas opening a door,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.44,0:02:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because now, total strangers\Nfrom all walks of life
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.00,0:02:20.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,write to me all the time
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.96,0:02:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just to tell me what it's like\Nfor them to go back to work
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.84,0:02:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within days or weeks of having a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.88,0:02:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to share\N10 of their stories with you today.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.48,0:02:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are totally real,\Nsome of them are very raw,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.88,0:02:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not one of them\Nlooks anything like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.36,0:02:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the first.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.16,0:02:43.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I was an active duty\Nservice member at a federal prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.88,0:02:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I returned to work after the maximum\Nallowed eight weeks for my C-section.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.28,0:02:52.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A male coworker was annoyed\Nthat I had been out on 'vacation, '
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.36,0:02:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so he intentionally opened the door on me\Nwhile I was pumping breast milk
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.81,0:02:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stood in the doorway\Nwith inmates in the hallway."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.88,0:03:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the stories that these women,\Ntotal strangers, send to me now,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.20,0:03:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are not actually even about breastfeeding.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.48,0:03:07.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A woman wrote to me to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.40,0:03:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I gave birth to twins and went back\Nto work after seven unpaid weeks.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.20,0:03:13.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emotionally, I was a wreck.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.88,0:03:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Physically, I had a severe hemorrhage\Nduring labor, and major tearing,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.24,0:03:20.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I could barely get up, sit, or walk.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.00,0:03:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My employer told me I wasn't allowed\Nto use my available vacation days
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.88,0:03:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it was budget season."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.80,0:03:32.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've come to believe that we can't look\Nsituations like these in the eye
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.44,0:03:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because then we'd be horrified,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.28,0:03:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we get horrified,\Nthen we have to do something about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.36,0:03:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we choose to look at,\Nand believe, this image.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.24,0:03:43.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't really know\Nwhat's going on in this picture,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.72,0:03:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I find it weird\Nand slightly creepy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.40,0:03:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.84,0:03:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, what is she doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.08,0:03:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I know what it tells us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.12,0:03:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It tells us that everything's fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.68,0:03:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This working mother, all working mothers,\Nand all of their babies, are fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.44,0:04:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's nothing to see here.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.44,0:04:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And anyway, women have made a choice,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.88,0:04:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so none of it's even our problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.20,0:04:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to break this choice thing\Ndown into two parts.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.16,0:04:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first choice says\Nthat women have chosen to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.80,0:04:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that's not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.04,0:04:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today in America, women make up\N47 percent of the workforce,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.28,0:04:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in 40 percent of American households,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.28,0:04:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a woman is the sole\Nor primary breadwinner.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.84,0:04:31.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our paid work is a part, a huge part,\Nof the engine of this economy,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.40,0:04:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is essential\Nfor the engines of our families.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.20,0:04:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On a national level,\Nour paid work is not optional.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.40,0:04:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choice number two says that women\Nare choosing to have babies,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.36,0:04:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so women alone should bear\Nthe consequences of those choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.20,0:04:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, that's one of those things
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.00,0:04:50.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that when you hear it in passing,\Ncan sound correct.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.48,0:04:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't make you have a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.93,0:04:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I certainly wasn't there\Nwhen that happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.04,0:05:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that stance\Nignores a fundamental truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.08,0:05:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is that our procreation\Non a national scale is not optional.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.00,0:05:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The babies that women, many of them\Nworking women, are having today,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.52,0:05:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will one day fill our workforce,\Nprotect our shores,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.76,0:05:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make up our tax base.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.60,0:05:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our procreation\Non a national scale is not optional.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.80,0:05:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These aren't choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.20,0:05:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need women to work.\NWe need working women to have babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.04,0:05:26.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we should make\Ndoing those things at the same time
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.54,0:05:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least palatable, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.96,0:05:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, this is pop quiz time:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.68,0:05:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what percentage of working\Nwomen in America do you think
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.64,0:05:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have no access to paid maternity leave?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.44,0:05:40.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,88 percent.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.87,0:05:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,88 percent of working mothers\Nwill not get one minute of paid leave
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.04,0:05:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after they have a baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.68,0:05:50.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now you're thinking about unpaid leave.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.32,0:05:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It exists in America.\NIt's called FMLA. It does not work.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.92,0:05:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because of the way it's structured,\Nall kinds of exceptions,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.92,0:06:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,half of new mothers are ineligible for it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.96,0:06:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's what that looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.32,0:06:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We adopted our son.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.16,0:06:10.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I got the call, the day he was born,\NI had to take off work.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.40,0:06:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had not been there long enough\Nto qualify for FMLA,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.56,0:06:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I wasn't eligible for unpaid leave.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.32,0:06:18.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I took time off\Nto meet my newborn son,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.76,0:06:19.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lost my job."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.84,0:06:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These corporate stock photos\Nhide another reality, another layer.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.76,0:06:30.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of those who do have access\Nto just that unpaid leave,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.40,0:06:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most women can't afford\Nto take much of it at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.60,0:06:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A nurse told me, "I didn't qualify\Nfor short-term disability
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.12,0:06:41.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my pregnancy\Nwas considered a preexisting condition.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.20,0:06:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We used up all of our tax returns\Nand half of our savings
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.89,0:06:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during my six unpaid weeks.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.76,0:06:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just couldn't manage any longer.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.52,0:06:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Physically it was hard,\Nbut emotionally it was worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.08,0:06:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I struggled for months\Nbeing away from my son."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.08,0:06:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this decision\Nto go back to work so early,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.00,0:07:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a rational economic decision\Ndriven by family finances,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.20,0:07:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's often physically horrific
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.48,0:07:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because putting a human\Ninto the world is messy.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.04,0:07:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A waitress told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.48,0:07:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"With my first baby, I was back\Nat work five weeks postpartum.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.04,0:07:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With my second, I had to have\Nmajor surgery after giving birth,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.12,0:07:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I waited until six weeks to go back.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.16,0:07:19.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had third degree tears."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.88,0:07:23.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twenty-three percent\Nof new working mothers in America
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.96,0:07:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will be back on the job\Nwithin two weeks of giving birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.32,0:07:34.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I worked as a bartender and cook,\Naverage of 75 hours a week while pregnant.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.00,0:07:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to return to work\Nbefore my baby was a month old,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.64,0:07:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working 60 hours a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.68,0:07:44.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of my coworkers was only able\Nto afford 10 days off with her baby."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.76,0:07:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, this isn't just a scenario\Nwith economic and physical implications.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.96,0:07:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Childbirth is, and always will be,\Nan enormous psychological event.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.16,0:07:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A teacher told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.28,0:07:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I returned to work\Neight weeks after my son was born.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.28,0:08:01.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I already suffer from anxiety,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.20,0:08:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the panic attacks I had prior\Nto returning to work were unbearable."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.32,0:08:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Statistically speaking,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.44,0:08:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the shorter a woman's leave\Nafter having a baby,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.16,0:08:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more likely she will be to suffer\Nfrom postpartum mood disorders
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.40,0:08:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like depression and anxiety,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.52,0:08:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and among many potential\Nconsequences of those disorders,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.56,0:08:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suicide is the second\Nmost common cause of death
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.72,0:08:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a woman's first year postpartum.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.24,0:08:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Heads up that this next story --
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.84,0:08:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've never met this woman,\Nbut I find it hard to get through.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.44,0:08:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I feel tremendous grief and rage\Nthat I lost an essential,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.64,0:08:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,irreplaceable, and formative\Ntime with my son.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.52,0:08:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Labor and delivery\Nleft me feeling absolutely broken.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.96,0:08:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For months, all I remember\Nis the screaming: colic, they said.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.64,0:08:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the inside, I was drowning.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.80,0:08:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every morning, I asked myself\Nhow much longer I could do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.52,0:08:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was allowed to bring my baby to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.72,0:09:01.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I closed my office door\Nwhile I rocked and shushed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.88,0:09:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and begged him to stop screaming\Nso I wouldn't get in trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.40,0:09:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hid behind that office door\Nevery damn day
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.48,0:09:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and cried while he screamed.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.44,0:09:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cried in the bathroom\Nwhile I washed out the pump equipment.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.12,0:09:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day, I cried all the way to work\Nand all the way home again.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.28,0:09:19.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I promised my boss that the work\NI didn't get done during the day,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.44,0:09:21.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd make up at night from home.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.12,0:09:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, there's just something\Nwrong with me that I can't swing this."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.52,0:09:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So those are the mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.16,0:09:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What of the babies?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.96,0:09:33.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a country, do we care\Nabout the millions of babies
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.48,0:09:35.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,born every year to working mothers?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.36,0:09:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say we don't,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.72,0:09:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not until they're of working\Nand tax-paying and military-serving age.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.20,0:09:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tell them we'll see them in 18 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.13,0:09:43.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and getting there is kind of on them.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.85,0:09:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the reasons I know this\Nis that babies whose mothers
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.64,0:09:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have 12 or more weeks at home with them
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.96,0:09:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are more likely to get their vaccinations\Nand their well checks in their first year,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.96,0:09:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so those babies are more protected\Nfrom deadly and disabling diseases.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.68,0:10:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But those things are hidden\Nbehind images like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.28,0:10:11.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,America has a message for new mothers\Nwho work and for their babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.80,0:10:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever time you get together,\Nyou should be grateful for it,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.60,0:10:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're an inconvenience
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.36,0:10:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the economy and to your employers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.40,0:10:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That narrative of gratitude\Nruns through a lot of the stories I hear.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.96,0:10:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A woman told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.64,0:10:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I went back at eight weeks\Nafter my C-section
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.84,0:10:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because my husband was out of work.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.68,0:10:34.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without me, my daughter\Nhad failure to thrive.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.44,0:10:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She wouldn't take a bottle.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.76,0:10:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She started losing weight.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.40,0:10:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thankfully, my manager\Nwas very understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.24,0:10:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He let my mom bring my baby,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.80,0:10:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was on oxygen and a monitor,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.12,0:10:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,four times a shift so I could nurse her."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.96,0:10:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a little club\Nof countries in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.36,0:10:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that offer no national\Npaid leave to new mothers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.24,0:10:57.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Care to guess who they are?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.72,0:11:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first eight make up eight million\Nin total population.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.68,0:11:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are Papua New Guinea,\NSuriname, and the tiny island nations
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.20,0:11:11.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Micronesia, Marshall Islands,\NNauru, Niue, Palau, and Tonga.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.44,0:11:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Number nine is the United\NStates of America,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.84,0:11:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with 320 million people.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.32,0:11:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, that's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.68,0:11:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the end of the list.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.28,0:11:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every other economy on the planet
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.92,0:11:27.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has found a way to make some level\Nof national paid leave work
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.84,0:11:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the people doing the work\Nof the future of those countries,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.84,0:11:34.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we say,\N"We couldn't possibly do that."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.92,0:11:37.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We say that the market\Nwill solve this problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.44,0:11:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then we cheer when corporations\Noffer even more paid leave to the women
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.80,0:11:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are already the highest-educated\Nand highest-paid among us.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.08,0:11:46.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember that 88 percent?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.92,0:11:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those middle- and low-income women\Nare not going to participate in that.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:51.88,0:11:57.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that there are staggering\Neconomic, financial, physical,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.36,0:11:59.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and emotional costs to this approach.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.92,0:12:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have decided --\Ndecided, not an accident,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.96,0:12:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to pass these costs directly\Non to working mothers and their babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.92,0:12:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know the price tag is higher\Nfor low-income women,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.60,0:12:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,therefore disproportionately\Nfor women of color.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.40,0:12:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We pass them on anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.88,0:12:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this is to America's shame.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.52,0:12:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's also to America's risk
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.44,0:12:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because what would happen
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.36,0:12:28.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if all of these individual\Nso-called choices to have babies
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.44,0:12:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started to turn into individual choices\Nnot to have babies.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.32,0:12:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One woman told me,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.04,0:12:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"New motherhood is hard.\NIt shouldn't be traumatic.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.32,0:12:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we talk about expanding\Nour family now,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.60,0:12:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we focus on how much time I would have\Nto care for myself and a new baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.92,0:12:48.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we were to have to do it again\Nthe same way as with our first,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.24,0:12:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we might stick with one kid."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.80,0:12:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The birthrate needed in America\Nto keep the population stable
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.72,0:12:56.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is 2.1 live births per woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.88,0:13:00.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In America today, we are at 1.86.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.88,0:13:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need women to have babies,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.20,0:13:07.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we are actively disincentivizing\Nworking women from doing that.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.76,0:13:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would happen to work force,\Nto innovation, to GDP,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.00,0:13:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if one by one, the working mothers\Nof this country were to decide
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.16,0:13:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they can't bear\Nto do this thing more than once?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.68,0:13:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm here today with only\None idea worth spreading,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.20,0:13:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you've guessed what it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.36,0:13:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is long since time\Nfor the most powerful country on Earth
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.08,0:13:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to offer national paid leave
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.16,0:13:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the people doing the work\Nof the future of this country
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.90,0:13:36.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to the babies\Nwho represent that future.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.80,0:13:38.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Childbirth is a public good.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.96,0:13:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This leave should be state-subsidized.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.52,0:13:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It should have no exceptions\Nfor small businesses,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.04,0:13:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,length of employment, or entrepreneurs.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.52,0:13:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It should be able\Nto be shared between partners.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.92,0:13:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've talked today a lot about mothers,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.92,0:13:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but co-parents matter on so many levels.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.52,0:13:58.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one more woman\Nshould have to go back to work
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.64,0:14:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while she is hobbling and bleeding.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.84,0:14:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one more family should have\Nto drain their savings account
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.52,0:14:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to buy a few days\Nof rest and recovery and bonding.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.20,0:14:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one more fragile infant
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.52,0:14:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,should have to go directly\Nfrom the incubator to day care
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.48,0:14:17.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because his parents have used up\Nall of their meager time
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.20,0:14:18.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sitting in the NICU.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.84,0:14:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one more working family\Nshould be told that the collision
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.72,0:14:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of their work, their needed work,\Nand their needed parenthood,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.08,0:14:27.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is their problem alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.76,0:14:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The catch is that when this is happening\Nto a new family, it is consuming,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.44,0:14:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a family with a new baby\Nis more financially vulnerable
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.24,0:14:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they've ever been before,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.72,0:14:41.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that new mother cannot afford\Nto speak up on her own behalf.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.68,0:14:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But all of us have voices.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.92,0:14:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am done, done having babies,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.52,0:14:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you might be pre-baby,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.40,0:14:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you might be post-baby,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.80,0:14:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you might be no baby.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.44,0:14:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It should not matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.32,0:14:56.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to stop framing this\Nas a mother's issue,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.76,0:14:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even a women's issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.48,0:15:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an American issue.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.20,0:15:05.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to stop buying the lie\Nthat these images tell us.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.72,0:15:07.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to stop being comforted by them.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.00,0:15:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to question\Nwhy we're told that this can't work
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.68,0:15:13.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we see it work\Neverywhere all over the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.00,0:15:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to recognize\Nthat this American reality
Dialogue: 0,0:15:17.80,0:15:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to our dishonor and to our peril,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.44,0:15:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this is not,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:23.64,0:15:25.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is not,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.28,0:15:28.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is not\Nwhat a working mother looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.20,0:15:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)