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<p>[Time</a> With A Newborn: Maternity Leave Policies Around The World : NPR](<a href=“Time With A Newborn: Maternity Leave Policies Around The World : NPR”>Time With A Newborn: Maternity Leave Policies Around The World : NPR)</p>
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<p>Clearly people working at the DOE are better off than those working for, say, Wal-Mart; but in most of the developed world workers at either place would get more paid parental leave without using any of their sick days. It’s a different societal mentality; and though this is a tangent from the subject of the thread, my point was that a few decades ago none of those countries had those leave policies but they have changed and this is now the new norm. Similarly, just because many workplaces now are not set up to deal with workers who approach their job in a different way than the typical hard-charging, workaholic American style, that does not mean it must evermore be so.</p>