By Elissa Strauss, Photo: Getty Images, January 14, 2022
The fight for universal paid parental leave has been dominated by women.
It's mostly women who birth and feed babies, and therefore it is mostly women who are too often left to choose between healing from birth and adequately caring for their newborn, or a paycheck. It's a choice few would want to make, and yet thevast majority of new moms are put in that position and suffer. As a result, women are more likely to get angry, and then more likely get loud.
But men also stand to benefit from paid parental leave. Spending time with one's child and partner in the early days can have psychological, physical and even professional benefits in the long-run. Paid leave should be their fight, too.
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