Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Monday, May 6, 2018: Jenny Brown talks about Birth Strike

As people around the country prepare to celebrate Mother's Day, we contemplate the reality that U.S. women are having fewer children than ever before. What are the social conditions and personal decisions leading to this development, and how does it change our concepts of family and even of womanhood?

Next we speak with Jenny Brown, organizer with National Women's Liberation and author of Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work. "By some measures our birth rate is the lowest it has ever been.  With little access to childcare, family leave, health care, and with insufficient male participation, U.S. women are conducting a spontaneous birth strike," says Jenny Brown on her Birth Strike Blog. The Birth Strike has four demands: national health care, universal childcare, paid parental leave and shorter working hours.

Click here to listen to the show. 59:50 min

Also on today's show:
Writers Grace Talusan and Nayomi Munaweera
Comics Diane Amos and Lisa Geduldig

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