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and veteran point guard who's going into the WNBA draft as a free agent, told POPSUGAR after a national team practice at the Nike NYC headquarters last week that, prior to this agreement, the vernacular in the CBA never seemed to protect women with children.
One bullet point from the new CBA announcement shared by the WNBA reads,"Workplace accommodations that provide a comfortable, safe and private place for nursing mothers." For instance, Skylar noted,"We have a right to have a separate room to pump where no employees have access." She recalled,"I was pumping in the locker room. I can't store my breast milk with the Gatorades.
"It's groundbreaking, but it's also not something that should be groundbreaking. It should be standard."Skylar said she was 22 years old when she first experienced the change in the league's CBA, and"I didn't know much about what we needed." This time around, as a new wife and mother at 29, she was very vocal."We had almost everybody step up to their seat at the table and say, 'OK, this is the change that we want to see and we want to be.' . . .
One of those leaders is president of the WNBPA Nneka Ogwumike, a Los Angeles Sparks forward. When speaking to POPSUGAR, she said that the agreement is historic but that it ultimately shouldn't be."It's groundbreaking, but it's also not something that should be groundbreaking. It should be standard," Nneka said.
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