Paid Leave and a Different Kind of American Exceptionalism

"According to the subsequent panel discussion, moderated by Brigid Schulte, director of New America’s Better Life Lab, there are three ways in which the U.S. can learn from paid leave policies that have already been in place (one for each of the three other countries in the entire world that have no such policy):

• We should focus on paid parental, not maternity or paternity, leave.
• We should consider that there are cultural norms that need to be changed even after legal reforms have been made.
• We must make sure that the paid leave policies we pursue do not do further the workforce discrimination they are intended to eradicate."