Should You Tell Your Boss About Fertility Treatments?
There is nothing easy about undergoing
fertility treatments. They require that you spend a lot of time speaking with your doctor and taking care of medical procedures. More importantly, fertility treatments can cause significant emotional difficulty in the lives of both prospective parents. It's a tough time to go through.
For working women, undergoing fertility treatments has another difficult facet to it. Women have to make the decision about whether or not to tell their bosses that they are doing these treatments. On the one hand, revealing this information can seem like bringing something too personal to the conference table. On the other hand, your boss may be more sympathetic to the time you need off work if he or she knows the real reason behind it.
A
recent study found that the choice to tell (or not tell) a boss about fertility treatments appears to have no significant effect on a woman's stress levels. This is important because you certainly don't want to add any additional stress to the fertility treatments. Since none is caused by disclosure (or lack thereof) to the boss, your decision about whether or not to tell can be based on your own desires.
Think carefully about your relationship with your boss and the ramifications of revealing this personal information. Consider the ways in which it may affect your working relationships, both positively and negatively. Look at the situation pragmatically and make a decision based on your brain instead of your changing emotions.
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Posted by Kathryn on 11/16/2007 7:52:49 AM
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