Alabama
Melanie Bridgeforth: The urgent case for child care
By MELANIE R. BRIDGEFORTH “I had never heard of the ‘Motherhood Penalty’ – where women’s pay decreases once they become mothers – until I became a mother myself. My penalty came in the form of a difficult decision during the happiest moment of our lives. Due to increasing costs and decreasing availability of child care, I was forced to […]