Breastmilk, Birkins & Banana Pudding 🍼
This Week in Review ☕️: Hermes gets sued | Divorce has many advantages | Chocolate gets a lot more expensive | New mothers target employers under new law | Easter celebration desserts | Kate Middleton
Quick Bites:
Health🍼: Breastfeeding workers target employers under new law.
Attention all employers with new moms! Breastfeeding moms have the right to breaks and a pumping space for up to 1 year post-childbirth in the workplace.
💡Ladies, would it additionally help if there was a sign that said:
"Funnels are currently suctioning breast milk out of my nipples so I can feed my child. If you'd like to spare yourself a VERY awkward, gauche and uncomfortable encounter, please do not enter" ✋
Until 5 years ago, being a lactating mother and going to the office was a very difficult experience.
However, breast pumps have changed the game with devices having gotten more portable, smart and wearable today, writes The Washington Post.
Shoutout to all the Working and Pumping Moms that bring home the Bacon AND the Milk!! 🙌🏻
For many moms, the advancement has been pivotal as you don't have to be stuck to your baby all day.
The innovation has also brought opportunity with many companies hoping to cash in. The global breast pump market is expected to balloon to $5.2 billion by 2030, WSJ.
The new "PUMP Act" states that employees can sue employers if they are not provided with a private space and adequate time for pumping.
This space must be free from the public and cannot be a bathroom.
Fast-food restaurants like Wendy's and Mcdonalds are among the businesses that have been hit with federal lawsuits since the PUMP Act passed, Bloomberg Law reports.
Our Thoughts💡:
Ofcourse women are fighting for their breastfeeding rights DUH.. It's the only weight-loss activity that increases your chest size.
PS. Ladies, never cry over spilled milk. Unless it's breastmilk. Then cry A LOT 😫😫
Luxury 👛 : Hermès bags too hard to buy, shoppers allege in antitrust lawsuit, CNN reports.
The French luxury brand is being sued for their "anticompetitive, tying conduct" as “consumers are coerced into purchasing ancillary products from [Hermès]” to buy a Birkin bag", the complaint alleges.
Imagine being so entitled that you have to sue to drop $10k on a purse 🙄
PS. NOTHING in this world drives grown-a** women as mad as Hermès🤬
Background💡: The coveted "Birkin" which starts from $10,000 and can go upto half a million dollars has become the ultimate status symbol of rarefied wealth.
You'd typically see it on someone über-wealthy or a Kardashian. However, being rich isn't enough to get your hands on one of these bags.
These bags are not on display in stores, instead they are shown in private rooms to "chosen shoppers" who are "deemed worthy", the lawsuit claims.
We can visualize an entire court full of women on the stand shrieking “My friend only bought a Twilly and got a bag” 😂😂
Umm.. forgive us for not being a legal genius but antitrust should not apply to luxury goods that are not "essential" for public safety or survival.
Two bitter women in California are just pissed off their SA didn't offer them a birkin after buying 53 dog beds and 20 sets of horse-shaped salad bowls 👋
Hermès, which is based in Paris, has not responded.
Antitrust lawyers say the lawsuit will be difficult to prove. But even if it fails, it could be damaging to the company’s image, CNN.
Umm.. Wait till the court hears about Ferrari's policy
Food 🍫: Chocolate at risk due to rising cocoa prices, and "everybody is panicking", Bloomberg reports.
If we have 10 chocolate cakes and someone asks us for 1, how many cakes do we have left? That's right, 10
PS. If someone says you eat too much chocolate, cut them out of your life. You don't need that kinda negativity folks 🖕🏻
Key Highlights, according to Bloomberg:
💡Cocoa prices have already doubled so far this year to surpass $8,500 a ton, and $10,000 looks like a real possibility.
💡The main reason: Poor harvests in West Africa due to drought and disease. This is the 4th consecutive year of a supply deficit
💡In addition, decades of insufficient investment and support to millions of poor farmers have contributed
💡This will likely result in higher prices for chocolate products, according to a learnings-call statements from Hershey and Cadbury owner Mondelēz International
When you've been binging all day and you're not sure if you feel sick with yourself or want to finish off with something sweet👇🏻
Around 81% of Americans plan to celebrate the upcoming Easter holiday on March 31, with $3 billion expected to be spent on candy, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation.
Happy Easter in advance to all who celebrate. May your chocolate-covered eggs be more delicious than the pain of overeating, relatives and going to church 🙏🏻
Our Thoughts💡:
Us trying to minimize the damage done by 4 days of binge eating sugar with a single meal on Sunday night👇🏻
Relationships 💍: Divorce has many advantages, according to experts.
While divorce rates have been on a steady decline, it is still a disruptive, negative experience.
You don't enter marriage with the thought of it ending, but those who find themselves in such a situation have come out much stronger, CNN reports.
Newly divorced woman explaining reason for the split: "We had religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't" 🤷🏻♀️
PS. Whoever said money can't buy happiness clearly never paid for a divorce 🖊️
Divorce may not be what you wanted but it can motivate reflection on ways you want to make changes- or even lead to the first time you pick up the phone to call a therapist.
“In life, it’s our times of pain that actually help us to grow the most [..] You can move forward seeing your divorce as a catalyst for an extraordinary life”, a marriage therapist tells CNN.
The Royals 👑 : Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, reveals she has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.
In a video statement released last Friday: Kate said that she had undergone major abdominal surgery in London in January, saying that it was initially thought her condition was non-cancerous.
Kensington Palace did not release details on what type of cancer the princess has, but what we do know is that, as a 42-year-old woman, she is far from alone in her diagnosis.
Worldwide, more and more people under 50 are getting the disease, Vox reports.
As shown in the chart above, the early onset of 29 different cancers had risen nearly 80% globally between 1990 and 2019. This was found to be the case especially in wealthy countries.
No single factor is to blame for this frightening new trend, but doctors are trying to figure out the causes of cancer- from excessive alcohol consumption to toxins in our environment and food.
Quicker Bites:
Trump’s net worth hits $6.4 billion, making him among the Top 500 Richest People in the world.
Nike is replacing Adidas as sponsor of Germany’s football teams.
Finland is the happiest country in the world again.
Trump arrives in New York court for hearing in hush money criminal case.
Boeing CEO to step down.
Paris waiters compete in race carrying coffee and croissants.
Ferrari CEO says new EVs will not be silent, promises “emotion'“
Gold prices have been hitting record highs.
Switzerland becomes 1st major economy to cut interest rates in surprise move.