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Fathernomics: How Paternity Leave Benefits Businesses and Countries

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Channel: New America · 2015 · News & Politics

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Where's Your Daddy?: The Case for Global Paternity Leave

With:
Latifa Lyles
Director, U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau

Brad Harrington
Executive Director, Boston College Center for Work & Family

Jake Brewer
Managing Director of External Affairs, change.org

Barbara Wankoff
Director of Workplace Solutions, KPMG

Moderator: Liza Mundy
Director, Breadwinning and Caregiving Program, New America

Many new fathers spend the days and weeks after their baby is born roughly the same way: at the office, buried in work. Around the world, paid paternity leave policies are still relatively rare. And even when a country or business has one, it's often still culturally taboo for a man to use the time. Why should we worry about the lack of paternity leave policies around the world? And how do we bridge the gap between progressive policy and slowly changing global culture that too often continues to malign the man who takes leave? Where are the global paternity leave success stories – and the cautionary tales?

Join New America and Promundo for an afternoon of discussions that explore how paternity leave policies benefit not only children and families, but also the bottom line of both businesses and countries.

Follow the discussion online using #WhereIsDaddy and following @NewAmerica.

http://newamerica.org/breadwinning-caregiving/wheres-your-daddy/

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