The Economic Case for Paternity Leave [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 9/29/144:00 AM

Last year, maternity leave suddenly got a makeover, courtesy of a most improbable source: Shinzo Abe.

Japan’s prime minister is synonymous with machismo-spiked nationalism (he famously denied that women forced into sexual servitude by Japanese soldiers in World War II were “coerced&rdquo. But when he unveiled his sweeping economic revival plan, it included longer leave for mothers. And this wasn’t the usual pastel-hued sop to women voters; the way Abe framed it, longer maternity leave was a shot in the arm of Japan’s moribund economy. Though uncharacteristic, his reasoning made a certain amount of sense.

[For more of this story, written by Gwynn Guilford, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...ernity-leave/380716/]

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