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Indian Govt okays 26 weeks paid maternity leave, mandatory crèches for firms with over 50 people
The move will be benefiting about 1.8 million women, working in establishments employing 10 or more…
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Zomato announces a 26-week paid leave for parents of all genders, sexualities – $1000 bonus per child for new parents
Indian foodtech unicorn Zomato has today announced an inclusive parental leave policy for new paren…
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A turning point for Indian women: Soon 6.5 months of paid maternity leave
If the proposal gets accepted, mothers who use surrogates to bear a child and women who adopt a bab…
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20 great places for new moms to work
"Mothers were able to take the time they needed to bond with their babies and return to their jobs …
Rachel Gillett
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After government, private corporates too look forward to increase maternity leaves
Several CEOs want to create flexible work policies, which would ease the transition of women employ…
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The Indian government is testing a programme to subsidise maternity leave at companies
In fact, the labour ministry has been made aware of a trend of female employees being asked…
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin paid $1,700 a month to rent the garage where Google was born
Wojcicki no longer lives in that 2,000 sq. feet, four-bedroom house, but the decision to rent out h…
Eugene Kim
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Amazon workers finally get something Google, Netflix and Microsoft have: paid paternity leave
Amazon's paternity leave policy was among various aspects of the company's culture that came to lig…
Eugene Kim
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Seven months of paid leaves, flexible working hours and retrospective performance appraisal: Tata Sons’ new maternity leave policy is every working woman’s dream
Not only this, if an employee completes five years at work, (s)he would be able to avail one-year l…
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A friend called her maternity leave a 'holiday.' It made her realize just how much she got wrong about it, too.
"I was thinking to myself the first week: Oh my God, this is true physical labor," Samira Shihab, a…
Shubhangi Goel
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Silicon Valley exec: 'Maternity policy in the US is awful' and it's holding women back
Indeed, the US is one of just two countries in the world that doesn't ensure any paid time off for …
James Kosur
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I didn't take maternity leave as a self-employed worker, and I regret it
As for how long paid leave should be, six months is considered the "magic number." According to a s…
Melissa Petro
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14 incredible perks for new parents beyond paid parental leave
Microsoft followed suit by announcing it will provide 20 weeks of fully-paid maternity leave and 12…
Rachel Gillett
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My friend gave birth in Sweden and got 12 months maternity leave. I got 8 weeks in the US.
The author compared her experience in the US with a friend in Sweden. The Swedish dad got six month…
Lauren Finney
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'I didn't feel appreciated' - inside the 'backwards' reality of taking unpaid maternity leave in America
"The reluctance of conservatives to incentivize women's work is the only remaining barrier to conse…
Rachel Gillett
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This is what Vodafone India did to cheer its women employees
“The extended maternity leave and only 30 hour work week for 6 months will help returning mothers t…
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I'm a pediatrician and had no paid parental leave. At 8 days postpartum, I was in the ICU and had a medical bill of over $400,000.
Dr. Mona Amin shares how after a traumatic birth, she realized how broken the system is for new par…
Dr. Mona Amin
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Shareholders slam Starbucks for its family leave policy that fails to include baristas
"This runs counter to Starbucks's widely recognized commitment to social responsibility, nondiscrim…