One reason for this lag is the lack of income support during parental leave.
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They looked at parental leave, the protection of part-time work, and public spending on child care.
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Businesses are fiercely opposed to government plans to extend parental leave and boost the minimum wage.
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It also raised concerns about the absence of discrimination legislation or maternity and parental leave laws.
So he may be tempted to cut spending on day care and parental leave.
They include flexible parental leave, breaking up the banks and exempting the UK from euro bailouts.
Some government policies such as parental leave will allow parents to spend more time with their offspring.
And it forced the government to increase Austria's already generous allowance for parental leave.
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It all begins with maternity and parental leave, benefits that young men rarely even pause to consider.
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Parental leave is still something that seems to be the purview of women.
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Some companies, like Microsoft, offer both parents four weeks of paid parental leave.
This is why parental leave needs to be individual parent-specific rather than child-specific.
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Considering how far behind the United States is compared to other developed nations with regards to parental leave, that's shameful.
Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ), offer both parents four weeks of paid parental leave.
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Without making parental leave a joint responsibility of both sexes, it will contribute to the gendering of society that polarizes matters.
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But she also wants employers and the government to help women along via flexible working hours, paid parental leave and so forth.
One study of 19 developed countries found that paid parental leave had a significantly greater positive effect on productivity than unpaid leave.
But in 2006 the Liberal provincial government of Jean Charest introduced a provision for parental leave that is more generous than anywhere else in North America.
We get 14 months parental leave at 80% pay which is shared (2 months reserved for mum and for dad, the rest you split as you like).
Google offers 22 weeks paid parental leave to new mothers and seven weeks to fathers, while Facebook currently offers four months paid leave to both mothers and fathers.
Constable Deirdre Mezbourian said Jersey should get parental leave laws.
However, the report says lack of parental leave and benefits and other supportive labor laws and regulations are among the least important barriers to women moving into senior jobs.
It has mandated generous parental leave (though many women are still scared of antagonising their bosses by taking their full entitlement), subsidising kindergartens for poorer families and so on.
If we could introduce a more even split between men and women when it comes to parental leave, this would eventually lead to different patterns of expectations and sharing of domestic responsibility.
She wants parental leave when a baby is born to be reformed along mainly Nordic lines: ring-fencing half a year off for mothers and another half-year for fathers, on a use-it-or-lose-it basis.
An unsurprising but sobering finding: Survey respondents said that getting fired damages candidates most severely, as opposed to other reasons for leaving a job like a layoff, chronic medical illness, disability or extended parental leave.
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As a single young professional in my 20s at Merrill Lynch, I never considered reviewing the policies that would affect my work-life balance, such as parental leave, flex time, telecommuting policies, or retirement benefits.
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On the topic of parental leave, Mr. Romney has taken no public position on the Healthy Families Act, which would allow workers to earn up to seven paid days per year to care for family members.
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For all of the differences in all our millions of lives we have one thing in common: Out of 181 countries studied by Harvard and McGill, we are the only three countries with no paid parental leave.
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