By the time Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, many employers had created maternity leave programs. The main reasoning and argument behind the creation of this policy was in response to the increased “feminization” of the work force. (Dobin & Kelly,1999) . As executed and accepted as maternity leave is in every industrial and developed nation across the world, in the United States maternity leave policies were developed as a form of sexual discrimination. By the year 1977, women accounted for about 45% of the employment class but only 25% of current insurance plans included sick leave for pregnancy related illness. Due to this disproportionate number, women’s organizations, feminist and civil rights activists started
