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French minister draws fire over short maternity leave(setting a bad precedent?)
Ottawa Citizen ^ | 01/10/09 | Christine Courcol

Posted on 01/11/2009 4:23:49 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

French minister draws fire over short maternity leave

By Christine Courcol, AFP

January 10, 2009

PARIS - French feminists are taking aim at Justice Minister Rachida Dati who went back to work this week just five days after giving birth to a baby girl, saying she is setting a bad example.

Smiling in a black suit and high heels, the 43-year-old minister attended a cabinet meeting on Wednesday at the Elysee presidential palace on the same day that she walked out of a Paris clinic clutching Zohra, her new daughter.

Zohra was delivered by caesarian birth on January 2 and Dati insisted on her first day back at work that she was feeling fine.

(Excerpt) Read more at ottawacitizen.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: childbirth; france; maternityleave; rachidadati
A bunch of cry babies.
1 posted on 01/11/2009 4:23:50 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: Cincinna

Ping!


2 posted on 01/11/2009 4:24:15 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Toothy.

3 posted on 01/11/2009 4:30:31 AM PST by csvset
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Feminists only have one refrain: women should have a choice ... but only if they make the PC choice.


4 posted on 01/11/2009 4:34:35 AM PST by MathDoc (Don't blame me, I voted for Governor Palin and the wrinkly white-haired guy)
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To: MathDoc
They will choose it for you.:-)
5 posted on 01/11/2009 4:36:08 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I took law school finals about five days after giving birth. I did not feel fine. I still went. Right after that I attended classes for the next semester. Sometimes you do what you have to do.


6 posted on 01/11/2009 4:38:20 AM PST by ReagansShinyHair
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To: csvset

If that’s her on the day in question, she looks like she’s doing quite fine. Good for her.


7 posted on 01/11/2009 4:41:33 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I see that Kenya's favorite son has a new weekly Saturday morning radio show.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Setting a bad example?! For whom?! For all those blue-collar working mothers who, unlike Madame Rachida Dati, don't have a staff of around-the-clock nannies and servants to do her bidding and look after her offspring? Mon dieu!

Regards,

8 posted on 01/11/2009 4:46:09 AM PST by alexander_busek
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I guess the “bad example” was not taking sufficient advantage of France’s still generous health care and employment benefits.


9 posted on 01/11/2009 4:50:59 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (I would compare Harry Reid to a horse's rear, only I don't want to insult horses.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

She looks pretty hot!


10 posted on 01/11/2009 5:31:49 AM PST by 2harddrive (...House a TOTAL Loss.....)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wearing high heels five days after a csection?

Wow, that woman is a superhero!


11 posted on 01/11/2009 5:36:18 AM PST by autumnraine
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Dati is single and has not revealed the name of the baby’s father.


12 posted on 01/11/2009 6:39:51 AM PST by reg45
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To: csvset

Lazy ass french pooffters.


13 posted on 01/11/2009 6:43:24 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Bless her. I doubt they would be complaining if she had an abortion. I am glad she kept her child and carried to term. Who cares how long a break she took.


14 posted on 01/11/2009 7:31:50 AM PST by Dawnsblood
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