E7 featuring Randi Tangney: Maternal Healthcare in the US and Capitalising the Cost of Parental Leave

This week I am talking to Randi Tangney, an Employment attorney in the USA. Randi talks about becoming a mum and role model to three incredible girls whilst also trying to resolve the physical and mental demands of breastfeeding, no sleep, pumping and fitting a baby into a trial schedule. Randi also shares the additional barriers women in the US face to having a family and a career when she describes how her healthcare cover was tied to her job, and so leaving her job to care for her child was never an option, especially not when her unborn child was diagnosed with Myelomeningocele, a severe form of spina bifida requiring in-utero surgery.  We also wonder whether one way to improve outcomes for working mums is to record the cost of parental leave as an investment in the company's balance sheet rather than as a cost to the P&L, and Randi recommends we all read The Fifth Trimester by Lauren Smith Brody.