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HUNDREDS of women dressed as bandage-wrapped mummies will march today in cities across Britain to demand better rights for new mothers who are facing rising discrimination in the workplace.
Protest organisers Pregnant Then Screwed, which provides an online platform for new mums to anonymously share their discrimination stories, say that employers are allowed to force out working mothers thanks to archaic legislation.
Findings by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) suggest that as many as 54,000 women are forced out of their jobs after returning from maternity leave and 390,000 experience negative or potentially discriminatory treatment at work each year — twice as many as a decade ago.
The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
