In November 2021, The Skimm brought to light the necessity to create paid family leave policies. By 2022, we were seeing #showusyourleave all over our LinkedIn feeds in response to The Skimm's call to companies to share their leave policies. Companies were joining in on the movement and modernizing their policy. Incredible progress has been made to mirror what life is today.
But we are far from making meaningful progress. For many companies, this was an opportunity to put themselves in good light by simply updating text in a document. For many, it worked. Companies have been praised for their modernization of their leave policies but I want to see the data. How many of their employees are taking advantage of these new leave policies?
Here's when I'll be done: when all employees - men and women - feel safe to take advantage of these policies without repercussions. In this episode, I share my thoughts, my experiences, and other's experiences on why we must not be lulled into thinking we are done and why leave policies have a far reaching impact beyond what we traditionally think of leave policy as - for women who've just had a baby.
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