She had had the first of her four children — a boy — and while she dearly wanted to breast-feed her child, there was no place for her to lactate.
The company was hardly a hostile place for new mothers. CBRE then offered a wellness room that could be made private, and in general was in line with best practices at the time. But Meagher still had to lug her pumping equipment to work.
Eventually, she would devise the concept behind MilkMate, a company that not only advises firms on how to provide its female employees with a private space to pump, but also provides the right equipment, including a comfortable chair, a place to rest your arm, and a refrigerator in which to store milk. In this day and age of workers increasingly finding reasons not to commute into the office, it’s one more amenity to keep staff on the farm.
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