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Not that it's going to slow her down much.
"Since this is a unique time in Yahoo's transformation, I plan
to approach the pregnancy and delivery as I did with my son
three years ago, taking limited time away and working
throughout," Mayer wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.
Mayer's pregnancy comes at a critical time for Yahoo, which is
preparing to spin off its stake in Chinese e-commerce giant
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and considers the future of its
holding in Yahoo Japan Corp.
Yahoo shares were down 2.4 percent at $31.48 in premarket
trading, in line with stock index futures.
Mayer, 40, was pregnant when she joined Yahoo as CEO in July
2012 and she gave birth to a baby boy in September that year.
She worked from home after the birth and came back to the office
just two weeks later. (http://reut.rs/1PI2jjh)
Her approach to motherhood stoked a debate about whether her
example would help or hurt the cause of women in the workplace.
Yahoo said in its corporate blog on Tuesday that it was
"extremely happy" for Mayer and supported her plans and
approach. (http://bit.ly/1PI0liP)
Mayer, who has been married to start-up investor Zachary Bogue
since 2009, was an executive at Google Inc <GOOGL.O> before
taking the helm at Yahoo in 2012.
Since then she has sought to boost morale at the nearly
two-decade-old Internet company, including by increasing the
amount of paid leave offered to new parents, bringing Yahoo
closer to the policies of some of its Silicon Valley peers.
The changes in 2013 allow new mothers to take up to 16 weeks of
paid leave and fathers eight. Previously, mothers could take
eight weeks, while no paid leave was offered to fathers.
However, Mayer's ban on employees working from home in the same
year sparked nationwide outrage, with critics saying the policy
would make life difficult for working parents.
Media reports that Mayer paid to have a nursery built next to
her office further fanned the controversy.
Mayer has a net worth of about $380 million, according to
Forbes. Her pay package jumped 69 percent to $42 million in
2014, mostly due to gains in Yahoo's stock price despite
concerns about the health of its business.
(Reporting by Supriya Kurane in Bengaluru; Editing by Anupama
Dwivedi and Ted Kerr)
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