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Re: Early pregnancy endings and the workplace survey launches today

by Brewis » Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:58 am

With the usual apologies for spam and cross-postings and a trigger warning for sensitive content, here is a reminder of our survey. We are working together on a project about early pregnancy endings and the workplace. This project seeks to understand how women and other people who have been pregnant navigate the demands of work at the same time as experiencing termination or miscarriage (including ectopic and molar pregnancies)in pregnancy, up to 24 weeks. These are both very common experiences and yet there is little academic research in the area. Equally, while there are the beginnings of workplace support for these experiences, including leave for pregnancy endings offered by local government organizations like the City of Portland in the US and national-level miscarriage leave entitlements recently legalised in New Zealand, these are at an extremely early stage. Termination, except where it takes place because of foetal anomaly,is largely absent from these initiatives.

We are a group of academics from the OU (Jo Brewis, Julie Davies, Aimee Middlemiss and Victoria Newton), Aston University (Pam Lowe and Killian Mullan) and the University of Essex (Ilaria Boncori) and third-sector organisations working on miscarriage and termination (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and Abortion Rights). We will generate evidence, share findings and seek funding, with the ultimate objective of driving change in policy and practice. Our overarching aim is to improve organisational support for women who experience termination and/ or miscarriage via the provision of evidence-based guidance for line managers and HR professionals as well as resources for women themselves.

Our research questions are:

• What are the lived experiences of early pregnancy endings in the workplace before 24 weeks gestation?
• To what extent and how do women disclose early pregnancy endings at work?
• What are the factors that discourage women from disclosing at work?
• How do employers respond to early pregnancy endings?
• What are women’s experiences of workplace support after early pregnancy endings?

We have launched our survey today, which is open to anyone in the UK who has experienced an early pregnancy ending whilst in paid employment. It will be open until the 31st May 2022 and you can find the link here. Please do consider taking part and feel free to distribute this to others as widely as you wish, including on social media.

Please also note that while we refer to ‘women’ as a shorthand to represent the majority group who experience early pregnancyendings, the survey is open to transgender men and people who identify as gender-diverse as well.

You can get in touch on our email address if you have any queries.
EPE-project@open.ac.uk

Early pregnancy endings and the workplace survey launches today

by Brewis » Mon Mar 07, 2022 10:06 am

With the usual apologies for cross-postings, we are working together on a project about early pregnancy endings and the workplace. This project seeks to understand how women and other people who have been pregnant navigate the demands of work at the same time as experiencing termination or miscarriage (including ectopic and molar pregnancies) in pregnancy, up to 24 weeks. These are both very common experiences and yet there is little academic research in the area. Equally, while there are the beginnings of workplace support for these experiences, including leave for pregnancy endings offered by local government organizations like the City of Portland in the US and national-level miscarriage leave entitlements recently legalised in New Zealand, these are at an extremely early stage. Termination, except where it takes place because of foetal anomaly, is largely absent from these initiatives.

We are a group of academics from the OU (Jo Brewis, Julie Davies, Aimee Middlemiss and Victoria Newton), Aston University (Pam Lowe and Killian Mullan) and the University of Essex (Ilaria Boncori) and third-sector organisations working on miscarriage and termination (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and Abortion Rights). We will generate evidence, share findings and seek funding, with the ultimate objective of driving change in policy and practice. Our overarching aim is to improve organisational support for women who experience termination and/ or miscarriagevia the provision of evidence-based guidance for line managers and HR professionals as well as resources for women themselves.

Our research questions are:

• What are the lived experiences of early pregnancy endings in the workplace before 24 weeks gestation?
• To what extent and how do women disclose early pregnancy endings at work?
• What are the factors that discourage women from disclosing at work?
• How do employers respond to early pregnancy endings?
• What are women’s experiences of workplace support after early pregnancy endings?

We have launched our survey today, which is open to anyone in the UK who has experienced an early pregnancy ending whilst in paid employment. It will be open until the 31st May 2022 and you can find the link here. Please do consider taking part and feel free to distribute this to others as widely as you wish.

Please also note that while we refer to ‘women’ as a shorthand to represent the majority group who experience early pregnancyendings, the survey is open to transgender men and people who identify as gender-diverse as well.

You can get in touch on our email address if you have any queries:
All the very best
Jo

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