Shithole country.

Best advice I can give you. Start slacking at work. Not enough to get in trouble or fired. Just a little bit here and there and expand on it when you can at intervals.. That's what I started doing and it makes my life just a little bit better. Why work your fingers to the bone for a shithole country that can't even give us the things other 1st world countries have? We're being taken advantage of. So start taking some advantage back.

One does wonder why AmeriKan youth decide to open fire instead of finding a reasonable solution. US labor laws and maternity leave are shit in the supposed wealthiest country in the world.

Who down voted this? People who want women working no matter what? Maybe they will allow an extra hour at lunch to go have the babay, as long as the hour is docked from the paycheck?

Australia is 22 weeks at minimum wage by the government. Most businesses also offer an additional 12 weeks at full wage. You can take up to a year off without your employer being able to take issue.

I think you mean government mandated paid maternity leave. In America, companies themselves decide the leave they want to give their employees.

Is it right? No. But the framing is disingenuous and implies no one in the US EVER gets maternity leave EVER, and that’s not true.

In Lithuania, it's 72 days before scheduled birth and 56 days after, fully paid on day of entering maternal leave.

After that, one of the parents can go into long-term maternal leave of 18 or 24 months, at around 70% of pay.

In addition to that, the spouse who isn't taking that vacation can have 2 months off until the child turns 3.

Interesting, I thought Hungary had more. You get paid until the end of the third year, but in the last it's minimal, people usually return after 2. Maybe the source is different

Japan has it (and, more recently, paternity leave), but using it can be harder. Old companies try to pull all kinds of BS to deny it or change the woman's job or such. It's getting better and enforcement is cracking down but, as with all things here, it moves slowly.

being successful in the us means having a job that gives you benefits equivalent to the minimum required by law in the average european country.

Who TF is the troll researcher who made a color for 4 weeks or less that doesn’t even appear on the map 😂

But they want to increase birth rates?

What a pack of fucking idiots.

WTF Papua New Guinea?! Get with the 21st Century.

Right, north Korea has paid maternity leave; I TOTALLY believe that. (I don't actually fucking believe that)

In the US, federal law allows women 3 months off after childbirth, after which infants are shipped to daycare.

This is unpaid leave that allows you to keep your benefits. Some states augment that with pay and some "benevolent" corporations will offer more pay or time.

State supported paternity leave does not exist.

Research shows that isolating men from children leads to poor modulation of testosterone resulting in more aggression and less empathy.

Research also shows that lack of mother child bonding in early development creates men like JD Vance.

Policy shapes biology which shapes culture which shapes policy. A vicious cycle that we can only break once we recognize it.

We have a loophole for maternity leave in America

If you're rich you can have the rest of your life off

Rules only apply to the poors

This map isn’t worth a discussion. I seriously doubt that countries such as Sudan, Bangladesh, and Cambodia have a paid paternity leave. If so, it isn’t worth the paper it’s written upon. In those countries the government shit on worker rights.

that can't be right ? anyone from the US care to confirm this ? even for them it sounds absurd