调查：生育成女性求职禁忌话题_BEC初级作文

调查：生育成女性求职禁忌话题

Twenty two per cent would wait until they had passed their probation period to ask their line manager about their maternity rights.

Nearly a quarter (23 per cent) would avoid discussing it with their boss altogether and opt to discuss it with a trusted colleague instead.

Why the need for detective work? The poll found that information about maternity leave is not easy to come by for female employees.

Nearly two in five (39 per cent) of those polled felt the information was difficult to find with 13 per cent saying it was downright impossible, claiming details of maternity benefits were not made available to employees at all, unless specifically requested.

Only 32 per cent of female employees were given information about maternity benefits when they started their current job.

The survey also found that 42 percent of female employees would only ask their employer about maternity benefits if they were announcing a pregnancy.

The reasons ranged from being worried employers would think they were already pregnant (43 percent), worrying it would be perceived that they were trying to get pregnant (37 percent) and feeling it was 'not professional' (30 per cent).

Most alarmingly though, more than one in five (22 per cent) feared they would be putting themselves at risk of redundancy by asking questions on the taboo topic.

So what do women feel can be done? Half said it should be compulsory for all organisations to have a transparent benefits package from the start of the recruitment process.