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Parental Leave Policies in 21 Countries: Assessing Generosity and Gender Equality

 
 
 
 
 
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September 2008, Rebecca Ray, Janet C. Gornick and John Schmitt

This report examines the parental leave policies in 21 high-income nations and identifies five "best practices" for parental leave policies. The study shows that the U.S. has the least generous leave policies of the 21 countries examined in the report. The states exhibiting the five best practices include Finland, France, Greece, Norway, Spain, and Sweden.

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Your article misses on important detail. Gender equality in leave is something to be strived, but what of mothers who want to stay home for the full leave and care for the children. Your idea of the 6 months for the mother and 6 months for the father of non-transferable leave, would discriminate against mothers who choose to and want to stay home to care for their children. It would also hamper efforts to increase the length of time mothers breast feed their children. It is recommened in Canada, to breast feed until at least age 1. So, a better system would be to allow the mother to take 1 year off at FTE, and then the father another 6 months to 1 year at FTE. I personally feel that parents should be supported until the children enter school age and the primary caregiver can then return to the workforce.

09/19/2009
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