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Working until the day before the birth? For many self-employed pregnant women, this has been the reality so far, and there has been a lack of state support so far. A petition wants to change that.
The self-employed carpenter Johanna Röh from Lower Saxony started a petition that made waves this week under the hashtag #mutterschutzfüralle and was so successful that the Bundestag now has to deal with the issue. In the 318th episode “important today” she tells how it all started and how it is going on now.
They needed 50,000 votes, now there are more than twice as many. Because they have well-known supporters for their project, such as influencer Jessie Weiß or model Marie Nasemann, hardly anyone on Instagram has been able to avoid the topic in the past few days, says Röh. When she became pregnant, the carpenter realized that running a business and starting a family were very difficult to reconcile.
Self-employed pregnant women lack financial support
As a permanent employee, she would immediately be subject to an employment ban as a carpenter. Heavy material, noisy, humming machines – none of this is a suitable environment for a pregnant woman. As a self-employed person, however, there is no financial support, sickness benefit or business assistance. “Actually, that’s a problem for every self-employed pregnant woman. If it’s a high-risk pregnancy, nobody can work seriously.” Although she is entitled to domestic help, there is no operational help: “My problem is not whether the household is managed, but that my own workforce is absent from the company for an extremely long period of time.”
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Pause or work: A question of financial reserves
Johanna Röh had to decide for herself whether she could work. A decision that ultimately falls on the finances, because only those who can afford it can pause – an absurdity and the reason why Röh launched the petition. In the fall, the Bundestag now has to deal with the issue and Röh is hoping for real change: “We expect what the government wrote in the coalition agreement, namely that they support women in the trades.” After a break of only ten weeks after the birth of her daughter, she will soon be back in the workshop. There can be no question of maternity leave during the two-week break, she and her partner pay for the time off out of their own pockets.
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Source: Stern
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