Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's minimal maternity leave plan prompts dismay

The tech company chief says she will take only two weeks off and be 'working throughout' when she gives birth to twins but campaigners lament her example

Yahoo's chief executive, Marissa Mayer, has been criticized after announcing she is taking as little as two weeks of maternity leave and will be "working throughout" when she gives birth to identical twins later this year - with some upset that her break will be so brief, and others that she even has to talk about it at all.

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