"maternal leave" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a period of time that a mother takes off work after the birth of a child. For example, "My manager was very understanding when I told her I needed to take a few months of maternal leave."
A maternal leave reform, say.
I then had four exhausting but wondrous months of paid maternal leave.
In the U.S., as Jill Lepore observed in the magazine in 2009, pumps have become a substitute for adequate maternal leave.
As expected, childless women experienced more incivility than their counterparts, a difference that was greater in organizations with larger differences between maternal leave and paternal leave policies and positively associated with subsequent career withdrawal.
All are characterized not only by generous welfare and maternal leave provisions, and infant care systems, but also by high levels of sexual equality as measured by incomes and social position.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, Mr. Trump, who has offered his own threadbare version of a maternal leave plan, was pants-on-fire lying when he claimed that his opponent has no such plan.
During this study we will test the following hypotheses: 1. Maternal left sided sleep position reduces the risk of late stillbirth.
In addition, a parent interview was administered, which included all the questions related to maternal employment, maternity leave, and socio-biographic variables when the children were 9 months (National Center for Education Statistics 2005).
Governments should also legislate to get employers to offer both maternal and paternal leave, and provide or subsidise child care.
To support the participation of women and parents in the workplace, Finland has a comprehensive system of maternal and paternal leave for new parents.
In a time-lagged survey study, we examined 474 early career employees' experiences of workplace incivility and career withdrawal cognitions one year later; we also collected objective data on organizations' maternal and paternal leave policies.
