| 1 | Did you take maternity leave? | |
| 2 | I am six weeks into my maternity leave with my second child. | |
| 3 | In Britain, by contrast, it falls sharply after the first year of maternity provision. | |
| 4 | A government survey found that 24% of men thought that women on maternity leave should be made redundant before anyone else. | |
| 5 | She went back to work after the birth of her first daughter, Josephine (there was no maternity leave), but when her second, Susanna, arrived, she began working at home as a reader. |