The Fight for Equitable Family Leave Across the World

Sarah Lippman
3 min readNov 16, 2020

A new study from the Pew Research Lab just released statistics that indicate that for both mothers and fathers, a significant percentage of the labor force has taken on reduced hours or family leave during the coronavirus pandemic. While in the past, and, for a while at the beginning of social distancing, there have been disparate proportions of women who take time away from their work to return…

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