New Startup Asks Women to Review Companies' Maternity Leave Policies
LatestMany companies’ maternity leave policies are profoundly insufficient —but women often struggle to access this information before accepting a job offer. Fairygodboss, a new startup where women review their places of employment, offers a database that should provide future parents with the transparency denied to so many job applicants.
According to Quartz, “Fairygodboss…has a crowdsourced database of maternity leave policies for about 700 companies.” The startup was founded by Georgene Huang and Romy Newman after Huang undertook a job search while pregnant and could not “find any information about different company’s leave policies.”
And, as Huang explains to Quartz, asking one’s interviewer is not so simple: