Our women, once getting to the labor room, are also treated like they were in a high risk pregnancy and constant monitoring is done when in fact only 20 percent need this type of care.

After the Second World War, for example, businesses and government sought to persuade women to vacate jobs in factories, thus making room in the labor force for returning veterans.

My deskmate is like labor, every day early to arrive at the school to the water room to fetch water.