Maternity

Paid Paternity Leave: Mandatory for Employers to Offer In the United States, currently paternity leave is an issue for both employers and employees, on average women and men go back to their job(s), two weeks or less after their child(ren) are born. The first few weeks after having a child or children are the hardest, however too many parents are going back too soon. Employers should mandatorily offer paid paternity leave for new parents who currently end up going back to work too soon due to…

Netflix, google and Facebook have all recently made changes to their maternity and paternity leave schemes to help entice employees to stay with their company. Google states that increasing their paid maternity leave to 18 weeks from 12 and their paternity paid leave from 7 weeks to 12 their staff turnover of new mums decreased by 50% which helped increase their bottom line. It help stop…

careers and the ones who give the majority of the parental leave to the father (Conley). Although Canada is one nation, we have 2 different policies on parental leave. Quebec is the only province in Canada with its own set of rules and regulations. Maternity leave, paternity leave, and…

In 2007, Washington signed on a state family leave act that requires eligibility of the FMLA. Maternity leave in Washington allows up to twelve weeks of leave. Weekly pay is around $250 per week for individuals who were working 35 hours and plus per week at the time in which they took the leave. As presidential campaigns pass, and community petitions…

It is important for parents to be able to care for their newborns. Unfortunately, parents and children in the United States are being deprived of the essential benefits paid parental leave can provide. In the 21st century most parents work. The reality is most children live in a household with a single parent or two working parents. With all the evidence, it’s surprising how behind the United States is on this matter. In fact, the United States is the only industrialized country that does not…

Maternity leave is inherently gender specific. Given that policies governing “maternity” leave, whether paid or unpaid, impact men and women so differently, one must examine the issue through the lens of gender equality. Articles by economists and sociologists, provide insight into the effects of childrearing on a woman’s career and earning potential in the United States. Furthermore, examining other countries’ maternity leave policies helps identify how changes to federal maternity leave…

Baillie, (2011) argues that, it is possible to discuss the terms melancholy and maternity not only alongside psychoanalysis and feminism but also scrutinize the visual aspect. Melancholic female artist can be used to address the issues that affect women using their paintings. Most of them are inspired by the life experiences that they went through. Majority of them are haunted by the past unsustainable relationship and lost ideal where they lost the connection with their mother. Baillie…

Paid Maternity Leave in the United States From the abject misery of Haiti, past the streets of Afghanistan, and to the slums of Djibouti, working women and men all have something in common; paid maternity leave. The poorest and most corrupt nations in the world, along with the most advanced and modernized, all have laws in place for ensuring pay when a mother has a child (Lerner). Most of the countries in the world have caught on to this necessary enforcement for working families, with an…

14 weeks of paid maternity leave. The US provides zero,” the American politician, and Senator of Vermont, Bernie Sanders once stated. It is apparent that United States lacks the basic principal of paid maternity leave, and in fact it is the only developed country to not offer it. The United States has constantly debated whether or not paid maternity leave should be given, and even with many women entering the workforce, paid maternity is still not required by law. Paid maternity leave…

unpaid weeks of maternity leave for new mothers, the lowest federal policy of all developing nations. Even with pleas from the masses and prominent politicians, like President Barack Obama, the last change in federal policy was in 1993. It’s important to consider the factors-- sexism and the American imperialist ideal-- that block maternity leave policies from increasing in length and becoming paid. Though the United States aims to keep its spot as a top developing nation, its maternity leave…