All Women Should Have Opportunity To Breast-Feed At Work, Letter To Editor Says

"Legislators and business leaders must help extend" the "opportunity" to breast-feed at work to "women on all rungs of the employment ladder," Audrey Naylor, chair of the United States Breastfeeding Committee, writes in a New York Times letter to the editor in response to a Sept. 1 Times article on breast-feeding at work. Currently, there is "unequal treatment" of women who breast-feed at work, Naylor writes. She adds that women in the U.S. "face big obstacles to following current national recommendations for feeding their babies" because there are no national policies that enable paid maternity leave and "no recognized right to breaks for nursing or expressing milk on the job." According to Naylor, breast-feeding presents a "win-win-win scenario for employer, employee and the country" (Naylor, New York Times, 9/7).


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