Good News in Chandler

This summer in our great city of Chandler, a woman was breastfeeding at a public pool. She was covered up (keep in mind it's usually around 110 degrees during the day). Someone complained to a lifeguard and the lifeguard told the woman to feed her child in the restroom. That started a big hubbub and the city council then proposed to make an ordinance that said that women who breastfeed should be "appropriately covered" [whatever that means] but if someone complained, then they would be asked to go to a private location (like a restroom or 120 degree car) and if they refused, then they would be arrested. Needless to say, all the mothers in the city were infuriated. Breastfeeding is a protected right in like 38 states but not Arizona. So we got some good news in the past couple of days:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1027breastfeeding-ON.html

Chandler has become the second city in the nation to enact a breast-feeding law, making it legal in the city for a mother to nurse her child "anywhere a mother and child are allowed to be." The council on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the measure. Their decision met with cheers and a standing ovation from more than 50 mothers, most who were holding babies, who packed the room. The council also passed a resolution asking the state Legislature to follow their lead and exempt breast-feeding from indecent exposure laws. Although 35 states, excluding Arizona, have laws that permit public breast-feeding, Philadelphia is the only other city with one, City Attorney Michael House said. The push came from a group of nursing mothers after a Tempe resident was asked not to nurse her child beside a Chandler pool in June.

Wednesday I went to an all day staff meeting with my new boss. I’m not sure my new boss has a sense of humor. I can’t put my finger on it but something about him makes him unapproachable/difficult to relate to. I am going to reserve judgment… he may be acting a certain way because he is new and needs to establish himself in this group. If there is no levity in this group, then I will be unhappy. Anyway, the demographic in the room is men who have worked here for 15 – 20 years, with kids and stay-at-home wives. I am the only woman. My boss wanted to work straight through lunch and I said, “Can we have a 15 minute break?” He said, “Well, the food is right back there [in the back of the room]”. Then he said, “Oh, I know why you need a break…” I felt a combination of relief and horror that he came to realization that I needed to go pump but then he said in front of everyone…”Oh you want to go work out.” Errr… not exactly. He did concede to a break but he still has no clue what I needed to go do, even though I told him I was breastfeeding when he came on board a couple weeks ago. I think this is definitely one of the things that makes it hard for women to go back to work. People who haven't been through it before just can't relate.