Paid Maternity Leave Case
Paid Maternity Leave Case #4.
The case shows a comparison between women and men in Germany to a woman in New Mexico and parents in America. In Germany, parents receive up to 47 weeks paid maternity leave, in New Mexico 5 weeks while in the United States 12 weeks’ unpaid leave under the FMLA Act that applies to 50% of workers alone.
According to the case:
LEAVE OPTIONS
GOOD CONSEQUENCES
BAD CONSEQUENCES
PAID
Job security protected
Healthy family finance
Lower risk of postpartum depression
Lower infant mortality
Higher rates of immunization and health visits for babies
Women’s unequal role in the workforce
Worsening the existing gender wage gap
Burdensome and costly to employers especially during tough economic times
Undermine …show more content…
“For women on the margin between working and staying home, the availability of paid leave may make market work more feasible and attractive, and as a result, increase their attachment to the workforce. (Lester, 2005) Paid leave is greatly valuable because other possible alternatives, such as daycare, cannot entirely replicate the value of personal time away from work to properly take care of the new infant and it cannot also add an additional health value to a mother who had complications at birth who needs to be healing …show more content…
Paid maternity leave would also help the financial situation of mothers and families by providing the same level of income as if the woman was at work. The decreases in the bad consequences would leave both mother and child better off and on equal grounds of those who receive paid maternity leave elsewhere. Not only would this give the right of an equal playing field it would also give it to the child, as an infant can’t make decisions for themselves and are at the discretion of the caregiver. The child would also be on an equal playing field if they were able to receive the same advantages of the mother being able to bond with child and breastfeed while on paid leave. If they mother did not have paid leave, then babies whose mothers were able to stay home would have an advantage of bonding and
The case shows a comparison between women and men in Germany to a woman in New Mexico and parents in America. In Germany, parents receive up to 47 weeks paid maternity leave, in New Mexico 5 weeks while in the United States 12 weeks’ unpaid leave under the FMLA Act that applies to 50% of workers alone.
According to the case:
LEAVE OPTIONS
GOOD CONSEQUENCES
BAD CONSEQUENCES
PAID
Job security protected
Healthy family finance
Lower risk of postpartum depression
Lower infant mortality
Higher rates of immunization and health visits for babies
Women’s unequal role in the workforce
Worsening the existing gender wage gap
Burdensome and costly to employers especially during tough economic times
Undermine …show more content…
“For women on the margin between working and staying home, the availability of paid leave may make market work more feasible and attractive, and as a result, increase their attachment to the workforce. (Lester, 2005) Paid leave is greatly valuable because other possible alternatives, such as daycare, cannot entirely replicate the value of personal time away from work to properly take care of the new infant and it cannot also add an additional health value to a mother who had complications at birth who needs to be healing …show more content…
Paid maternity leave would also help the financial situation of mothers and families by providing the same level of income as if the woman was at work. The decreases in the bad consequences would leave both mother and child better off and on equal grounds of those who receive paid maternity leave elsewhere. Not only would this give the right of an equal playing field it would also give it to the child, as an infant can’t make decisions for themselves and are at the discretion of the caregiver. The child would also be on an equal playing field if they were able to receive the same advantages of the mother being able to bond with child and breastfeed while on paid leave. If they mother did not have paid leave, then babies whose mothers were able to stay home would have an advantage of bonding and