Righting a Wrong

“I presented 10 reasons to upgrade our parental leave policy to our male CEO.”

When I worked at a wedding magazine, we’d recommend $5,000 designer gowns to readers while engaged staffers shopped for off-the-rack dresses for a fraction of that cost. The editor of a, our maternity-leave policy was so stingy, we didn’t meet the requirements to apply for our own 100 Best Companies list. This deception felt different than the others. How could we demand that companies do better when we were shortchanging our employees?