While this may seem like a benefit to employers — of course you want your employees to be working instead of taking extended leave — there are some downsides to men not taking paternity leave. Example ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Professor Michelle Travis covers emerging workplace law and policy. When it comes to gender equality, 88% of men respondents in a ...

In a perfect world, all new parents would be able to take paid time off to bond with their new babies, support their partners, and get used to the new family dynamics. Unfortunately, it's not that ...

In the U.S., access to paid parental leave depends on one's employer — but even then, the policy may be limited to moms who gave birth, which can undermine fathers, non-binary parents, same-sex ...

The benefits of paternity leave are many. Research has shown that taking time off work to care for a newborn child is good for father-baby bonding, the baby’s development, and the parents’ ...

The Reddit co-founder took 16 weeks paternity leave after his daughter's birth. Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, husband of Serena Williams and father of their daughter, Olympia, is on a ...

Megan and George Holz have been so methodical in planning their maternity and paternity leaves that the East Meadow couple created a spreadsheet to show when each will be off from work to care of ...