What do China, India, South Sudan and the United States have in common?
They are among the 92 countries where there is no national policy that allow dads to take paid time off work to care for their newborns.
According to a data analysis released on Thursday by UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, almost two-thirds of the world's children under age 1 — nearly 90 million — live in countries where dads are not entitled by law to take paid paternity leave. In these countries, this policy is typically decided by employers.
The data, mapped in an interactive chart produced by World Policy Analysis Center at UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health, allows users to scroll over a country to see its policy on paid paternity leave: no paid leave, less than three weeks (for most countries, that means one week or less), three to 13 weeks or 14 weeks or more. Users can also compare this data with paid maternity leave around the world. According to the center, 185 countries guarantee paid leave for mothers, with at least 14 weeks of leave in 106 countries.
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2 comments:
A ridiculous idea.Their jobs will be there for them just about like when Bush 2 told the military THEIR jobs would be there when they returned from active duty.No employer HAS to keep anyone.
Obama enforced it because he was the only sitting President to be at war for his entire presidency.
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