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Originally Posted by Bensmommy  Not as much a class issue as you may think. I'm a bachelor's prepared RN that works critcial care and there were many a day that I was unable to pump- definitely no one was bending over backwards to help me on any shift I worked- and I'm one of the "privileged" few.
I believe it's more a lactivism/whole country needs a change of mindset problem- not a class issue.
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Yes, and classroom teachers with master's degrees hardly get bathroom breaks. I don't mean to exclude or negate your experience with my comment about social class.
Social class is an infinitely complex concept, and whatever descriptive criteria one uses, the exceptions to them will be endless. But in the context in which I made that comment (one poster telling a mom going on welfare that pumping at work is a "fact of life'), it was necessary to point out that workplace pumping accomodations are not universal, and that those jobs that do permit it tend to be higher-paid and higher-status than an entry-level retail or service industry job. (Which, as you rightly point out, is not to say that ALL jobs requiring advanced degrees or paying a living wage permit an employee to express her milk during her shift.)
It doesn't have to be
either a lactivist
or a social class issue. It can be -- I would say it most assuredly is -- both at once. We can and must walk and chew gum at the same time as we think through and take action on these injustices.
