Women

WBD: Revisiting The Baby-Friendly Workplace Initiative

Published

9 years ago

August 7, 2015

Young mothers cuddling their babies in Borno State recently.

Oh! Yes, it is a yearly ritual,
the World Breastfeeding Day is here again, but this time, to reawaken the consciousness of employers of labour to the need to encourage breastfeeding in workplaces.
Although most employers would tell you they have never been against breastfeeding in workplace, but the facts still remain that practically, you cannot be said to encourage a thing when the environment is not made enabling for such a thing to thrive. For nursing mothers to use the company’s rest room as a place to breastfeed their young ones, is to say the least, an over discouragement of a culture.
Breastfeeding is a fundamental right of a child. This premise makes the duo inseparable especially within the first six months of delivery and stronger still as the world health organisation harps on the need for exclusive breastfeeding.
The need to breastfeed and be breastfed is made imperative by virtue of what the practice offers to both the giver (mother) and the receiver (child). However, for suspected lack of knowledge, most mothers have lost their jobs for lack of harmony between retaining their jobs and their early responsibility to their newborn while others chose the option of retaining their job at the expense of their primary responsibility to their new born. Those who choose to play the fast one, by returning to work after one or two months of delivery hardly put in their best at work nor serve their babies adequately.
The privately owned instutions of learning especially at the primary and secondary levels are culpable in this regard as they would not pay their female employees after two months of maternity leave. A gesture that simply means “resume duty or lose your pay”, even where the job position is not threatened, the fact that a nursing mother, who by every standard, deserves a better nourishment by way of feeding to recover the losses in child birth, stands a risk of losing her monthly pay, is enough threat to faithfully carrying out her duty and obligation to her new born.
Organisers of the World Breastfeeding Week is of the opinion that this gap can be closed by simply creating a space for mothers to breastfeeding week are of the opinion that this gap can be closed by simply creating a space for mothers to breastfeeding their newborns when necessary. A Creche in a workplace is all that is needed to keep a working mother at home in her workplace so she could be optimally utilised while still breastfeeding her baby.
However, the benefit of a paid parental leave is weighed alongside the provision of criche for early resumption of duty, far outweigh the later. Research has shown that it correlates with lower infant mortality rates and it actually increases the chances of a mother returning to the workplace and staying on board with higher productivity rates. Rather than indicating any significant negative impact on the job and the employer, it is revealed to save time and cost associated with recruiting and hiring new employees to replace the new mothers.
All the same, employers who appreciate the role of the nursing mothers in societal development, and the need to encourage them, are beginning to pick up on the advantages of paid leave.
According to Patricia Garcia, a social analyst and writer, “Google began offering its female employees up to five months paid maternity leave, in an effort to keep women from resigning after starting a family.
“So far, California provides new mothers with up to six weeks of pay at approximately 55 per cent of their usual salary. The state of New Jersey, through its family leave insurance programme, offers the same amount of time, paying out two-third of a woman’s wages.
… that is a start but we still have a long way to go she said.
On the local scene, Enugu State and Lagos State now grant six months maternity leave as a proof of their support for exclusive breastfeeding. It is expected that in not so long a time, other states will see reason to give nursing mothers a good time to give their new born the nutrition they deserve.

Sylvia ThankGod-Amadi

Women

The Wise Woman

Published

3 days ago

April 26, 2024

The Tide

The wise woman builds her home. Mothers are supposed to live exemplary lives. The roles of mothers in the building of the modern Christian home cannot be overemphasized.
The function of the mother is to help the man build the home. She is a helper. A helper to the husband when the man is not doing well. It is important for the wise woman to assist when the man is not able to meet up with the items needed in the home.
A wise woman needs to reference God first and then the husband. Also the wise woman should respect her husband.
Caring for her own children as well as others is very crucial.
Do not despise children from other mothers. Discipline the child who is going the wrong way.
Ensure family bonding, show love and don’t discriminate. Connection with children is very important, especially the females. Find out who is her friend. Also find out the kind of lives they live. Caution, counsel and guide so that they make good partners.
Teaching children the dos and donts should start from birth. Inculcate the word of God in them so that when they grow, will not depart from it.
From the Scripture, some women influenced their families positively. Virgin Mary influenced the world, she never destroyed herself hence she gave birth to Jesus Christ.
Elizabeth, despite her age, God blessed her as she waited patiently.
A wise should curb favouritism in the family and love children equally. Whether a child is your biological child or not, it is necessary to show love equally. Reprimanding the children should be the function of both man and wife.

Women

The Desire Of Every Woman In Marriage

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3 days ago

April 26, 2024

The Tide

Marriage is beautiful when there is love. Before and after marriage, couples show love to themselves. But you discover that after some years, that same love turn to be something else. A lot of people start going through emotional trauma in the hands of their loved spouses.
There are many things the woman desires to keep the love on as far as marriage is concerned.
Women are blesssed with feminine abilities that can be used for good in husbands lives. With your abilities, you can create a marriage that will last till couples get old.
A woman needs
man that is honest, trustworthy, nice, loving and financially stable.
There are no two ways about finance in marriage. No matter the level of love, if there is no reasonable finance, it is always difficult to manage the home.
Referring to the Biblical belief in Genesis 3: “Your desire shall be unto you…….. “
What this means is that whatever the woman desires in life shall be provided as far as she performs her role in her home. There are many things the woman expects her husband to take care of.
A woman wants a husband that is not lazy, at least helping to do one or two things when he is at home.
A man that is educated and intelligent so that they will transfer such traits to their children.
Knowing that there are traits that her husband has, traits of taking care of people, giving freely to people and caring for her family. She expects him to exhibit them.
A woman wants to love a husband that has family interest at heart. A man that spends time with his family, remembering his family even as he is away from home.
No matter where he finds himself, he is not destracted by external influence. He returns home to his loved ones.
A woman should not antagonise her husband because of one error or the other. No matter the level of offence he may have committed, you still show some love.
According to the Scripture, it is with wisdom that a woman builds her home. As far as he rreturns home, you accept him as your own.
It is not as if the woman will not monitor her husband, but to certain limit. Don’t be a monitoring spirit. Don’t allow anything to take your joy.
Don’t loose trust in your husband. The idea of checking your husband’s phone should be discouraged. The more you check your husband and his phone, the more you loose your joy.
You can show some form of jealousy, but to an extent. Cooperation, respect and being honoured from time to time is what the woman desires.
The home should not be a battle ground for a woman and man. A woman should be able to ask herself if the check on her husband will pay her any good.
Draw a line to a point where you checkmate your husband’s activities.
A woman wants a man that will love her and telling her you love her will be all she desires.

Women

The Desire Of Every Woman In Marriage

Published

3 weeks ago

April 5, 2024

The Tide

A woman needs a man that is honest, trustworthy, nice, loving and financially stable.
There are no two ways about finance in marriage. No matter the level of love, If there is no money, it is always difficult.

Referring to the Biblical belief in Genesis 3:Your desire shall be unto you……..
That is one aspect the woman expects her husband to take care of.
A woman wants a husband that is not lazy, at least helping to do one or two things. A man that is educated and intelligent.
She knows that there is a trait that her husband has. Traits of taking care of people, giving freely to people and caring for her family.
A woman wants to love a husband that has family interest at heart. A man that spends time with his family, remembering his family even as he is away from home.
A woman should not antagonise her husband because of one error or the other. No matter the level of offence he may have committed, you still show some love.

According to the Scripture, it is with wisdom that the women builds her home.
It is not as if the woman will not monitor her husband, but to certain limit. Don’t be a monitoring spirit. Don’t allow anything to take your joy.
Don’t loose trust in your husband.
The idea of checking your husband’s phone should be discouraged. The more you check your husband and his phone, the more you loose your joy.

The home should not be a battle ground for a woman and man. A woman should be able to ask herself if the check on her husband will pay her any good.
Draw a line to a point where you checkmate your husband’s activities.
A woman wants a man that will love her and telling her you love her will be all she desires.