Maternity leave is not federally guaranteed or paid in the United States. Although there has been an increase of women in the workforce, federal maternity leave policy has not changed since the adoption of the Family and Medical Leave Act in 1993. The subjective quality of this maternity leave is likely an important component of what mothers perceive to be decent work. However, no scholars have developed measurements examining mothers’ subjective experiences of the quality of their maternity leave. Therefore, the goal of the current research was to develop scales measuring six domains of quality of maternity leave: time off, flexibility, coworker support, discrimination, microaggressions, and benefits (e.g., pay, health care, disability insurance). In two studies with diverse samples of working, adult mothers, we provide evidence for the factor structure, validity, and internal consistency of the Quality of Maternity Leave Scales.

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产假量表（QMLS）质量的构建和验证

产假在美国没有联邦保证或有薪。尽管劳动力中妇女的人数有所增加，但是自1993年通过《家庭和医疗假法》以来，联邦产假政策并未改变。这种产假的主观质量可能是母亲认为的重要组成部分。体面的工作。但是，尚无学者研究母亲对产假质量的主观经验。因此，当前研究的目标是开发一种可衡量产假质量的六个领域的量表：休假，灵活性，同事支持，歧视，微侵略和福利（例如，工资，医疗保健，伤残保险）。在两项研究中，有成年母亲的各种工作样本，