Why the US Needs Paid Parental Leave | Anna Steffeney | TEDxSanJuanIsland
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- The positive health and economic outcomes of paid parental leave are undeniable, yet America remains one of four countries in the world without national paid parental leave laws.
Drawing on science and her personal experience as a working mother, Anna demonstrates why it is imperative the United States pass a paid family leave law, and explores how policy and technology can work together to improve the lives of working families.
Anna Steffeney is a passionate entrepreneur focused on improving the experience and lives for working families. After the birth of her two children-one born in Europe, the second born in the United States-the glaring difference in parental leave policies prompted Anna to launch LeaveLogic, a Seattle-based technology company that delivers a parental leave management platform to Fortune 1000 companies.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Mothers in America struggle .... they hide this if they can, but the reality is our Nation suffers when we devalue family and our newborns. As a Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse I have seen first hand how families struggle. The statistics are discouraging.... I was shocked to find out how much we penalize women for having babies......The United States has failed to step up and embrace what we say we value.
See it from the administrative spectrum. I am supposed to PAY for an employee that is NOT working at my place? Pretty fair huh? I mean yes, we can give a person FMLA time off. That IS fair. But if I am supposed to pay for someone that is NOT working. LOL. you are out of your freakin mind.
@@donotcare330 Yes I agree.
@@donotcare330 well the government would be, not the individual business.
@@donotcare330 exactly.....how about not having kids YOU CANT AFFORD? Im single with no kids because I AM RESPONSIBLE. Right now I couldn't afford a kid.
@@donotcare330 Probably because we have bills to pay and now a child to feed. If you want us to come back to work and not force us to rely on welfare, you'll pay us. Besides it's the company's insurance that pays.
I am so happy I am not an american going by most of the comments here. Surely the policies are important for mothers but lack of empathy among americans is so utterly disturbing! I only have one question to you, would you like it that none of the women in America have children? So that they can live their lives comfortably? And when your presently young population ages in some 20-30 years and u have no young workforce to care for you, what will you do?
Exactly. They are disincentivizing working women from having babies altogether. The birthrate is steadily dropping.
@@carissabennett3680 “give me money that isn’t mine for free becayse if not you’re a monster.”
You can tell the Americans by the sociopathic way they respond to someone wanting to (god forbid) have a child and take a few months off to bond with said kid. "Not on my watch you won't! You're not getting a dime for free if I have anything to do with it!"
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Lets show a map of the states with the highest homeless per capita rates.
In the US, if you are an educated woman with a professional job; you will not get paid anything, or any financial assistance with daycare. If you are educated and work full time, the only way you can take time to have a baby is if you have either family member who is willing to take care of your child, or if you have a spouse who can support you. Daycare can not be paid for by a single mother. In the US, most daycare if MORE than a mortgage. People don't understand that right now, the main women in the US who are having chidren, are not highly educated, do not have professional jobs, and are mostly on benefits; and that is because they are the only ones who CAN have a child and do not have to worry about daycare. Most of them qualify for subsidized daycare, and if you are not working, you have nothing to lose. US Govt is not realizing what type of "next generation" they are actually creating if most of the children in our next generation (not all) are coming from severely undereducated parents who are not in the work force. Only a small percentage of children have two parents who both can together pay for the daycare.
This first map is amazing. I am wandering when it was made or how „industrialized” was measured, because it leaves some EU countries out…
Glad I am not American.
ankra12 I am in America and it sucks we don't get enough paid vacation. You should encourage people to boycott American places that give paid vacation time off.
Dark Soren nope
The company has no reason to give that, its a waist of money
I live in Seattle and both of my parents had paid leave. mom got a year and dad got 3 months but didn't use all 3. Dad works for microsoft but mom was a manager at a local resturant. I have two friends whose parents didnt have paid leave. So i kinda don't know what she is talking about BUT i do understand
You are saying that your mother got PAID maternity leave for 52 weeks in Seattle? Who paid that leave?
And why, exactly, is the United States considered the best place to live and raise your children? It seems we have the worst childcare practices, pay rate, cost of housing, job/home life balance, and healthcare, and we're diving headfirst into authoritarianism, yet we act like America is like the Disneyland of the world. Most people haven't even taken a vacation in years because they can't afford to, let alone be able to enjoy what is supposed to be a wonderful time of becoming a parent because they can't afford to take time off to bond with their child and when they go back to work, they can't afford childcare because it costs more than a lot of parents make in an entire week. Don't get me wrong, I love being born and raised in the US, but we certainly don't have the best of anything here compared to countries like Australia, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, and Canada.
I'm pretty sure South Sudan should be in black I don't know they might have paid maternity leave to their soldiers
Where does that money come from?
Maternity leave ❤️
Can someone explain why you would pay someone not to work? (I'm actually curious)
Because healthy happy employees are good for both society and businesses.
@@jglobetrotter2830 exactly, something sociopathic business owners dont understand
@@FrenchyTube3 or non- child having workers who are RESPONSIBLE, but have to pay for YOUR child? Dont have kids YOU CANT AFFORD!
@@marklewen9384 LOL I also thought I'd never have children until I got pregnant. The point of having these policies in place is so you can use them when you need to use them as well and not just "have to pay for someone else." Grow up.
@@jglobetrotter2830 oh ok. Then I want double my pay rate. It would make me happy and you’re a sociopath if you don’t give it to me
A couple of things here concern me.
While in Germany, she says her maternity leave was paid for by government stipend. Here in the US it is being argued that an employer should be held responsible for paying maternity leave. Not at all reasonably acceptable. Wildly inappropriate.
Also
She glossed over the implied future hardships of her "apprentice" as well. Is this other person supposed to just accept firing upon her return from leave? Or will the employer be forced to now pay 2 people for the work of one? It is pretty clear that the offered one year maternity leave is not written in stone. She can return to work at any time earlier. How is this at all fair for her replacement? How could they expect any job stability?
Somehow almost every other country in the world somehow deals with it. Start treating employee with family as normal thing - then it will be easier to understand
@@bip5395 "somehow" isn't really much of an answer is it? It would be helpful to come up with an actual answer to the issue instead of just pretending to know the answer, or that it is easy for somebody else to fix.
@@pourattitude4206 I do have an anwer: most of countries consider lack of maternity leave to have bigger social cost than material one you pay to have it. Therefore there is a taxbased fund to support it (at least where I come from). I also deals with sick leaves: 80% paid, based on doctor’s note, employeer pays for max. 33 days in a year, rest paid from the fund (and there are controls if his is used correctly - so if you are at the address you claim to be to rest during sickness). Maternity leave is paid only during the first month by the employer. It is 100% for 20 weeks and then parental leave that can be shared paid 60% for 32 weeks. This can be replaced by 52 weeks of 80% paid. The 32 weeks part can be shared if the period of care of one parent is no shorter than 8 weeks.
And yes, coming back to my previous point. All the factors that you mention do affect it in some way, but definately not as much as oponents of paid parental leaves would like to see it. Somehow companies from other countries are competitive in the global market. So clearly the cost is not as high as Americans think it would be.
@@bip5395 no, no they don’t. They steal from others to give money to you. That’s not dealing with it. It seams better because it’s not your money.
@@juniorqindes8335 this is what society that supports It’s members does. Just like all need to tip in for police, army etc., just like for retirement you need new generation.
Pregnancy is serious state that affects almost 50% of the society and parenting affects almost all of it. With those policies acceptance and normal treatment in the workplace of both mothers and fathers.
Not to support it is just sick.
Be a sick, egoistic society if you wish to, but don’t be so shocked when pathologies arise.
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Daddy Joe Manchin said no :(
If you leave your job for three years, you simply are less committed than your colleagues who did work those three years, all perception aside.
Mandate, mandate, mandate... Yet the US is is a free market country. And work and childbirth are choices.
Steward Appiagyei All because we let women into the workforce.
let's all 'choose' to not work and not have children and let's see where the country would be in 80 years
HEYITSTRINALU but fact is you can choose to not work and you can choose to not have children
UndertaleSkeleBros But those choices impact women more than men.
Work is not a choice for most. Most have to work to survive. And I wish your mother made the choice to not give birth to a pathetic person such as yourself. What I can’t wrap my head around is why our society hates women so much. Without women, none of you aholes would be here.
So just because you and your man have moment of 10-15 minutes , now the company has to suffer after 9 months. First they have to pay you , then arrange a replacement and train and pay him/her and your colleagues has to clear the work mess.
Pick you damn sacrifice people !
Economics don't agree with your feelings.
Iceland has the smallest pay gap in the industrialized world and has paid maternity and paternity leave. Checkmate.
Yet, somehow, every developed country has made it work. Either every other country is practicing witchcraft or the U.S. is a backwards country.
@@Mo-lf1qv But they havn't, not without pushing interest rates into the negative.
Having a child is a choice, so technically your employer shouldn’t have to pay for you to leave to take care of your kid.
So is abortion?
The employer's insurance pays. And people who are temporarily out of work have bills to pay, too.
Take care of your employees and they take care of you.
The reason the USA has the best software firms is because they don't have paid paternity leave.
That... Is the dumbest thing I've read online
When a person goes on a paternity leave other programmer have to work harder to make up for the fact one person is missing. They can't just get someone of the streets to program computers. In addition how do you get so entitled that you think companies should pay you even though you are not there? Your at home not programming and you want to get paid as if you are there.
Move to another country. Problem solved.
Ahahhahahahahahahahah no
hodan ali Compelling argument
Not if you cant get a work visa!
I love how this whole thing is about how parenthood is a struggle so great that now people can abdicate their responsibility to provide for their family and let the government do it.
You mean if we pay for every woman in America to have paid maternity leave that they are statistically proven to be slightly less depressed? Im sure that’s financially viable and we will see the returns on that investment. 🙄
Parenthood being hard doesn’t mean that it’s suddenly the governments job to fulfill the role of an extra spouse in providing for your child.
So what do we do with the children then? Let them starve because mom's not entitled to paid leave?
It is NOT an employers job to pay for your choices and life style. Including YOUR health. If you want money. You show up and work. If you want FMLA time off. Fine. But We aren't paying you to be a brood sow. and same for daddy. They can show up and work or be let go of. Oh and if does go into law. Just think. Employers will find ANY reason and I MEAN any reason to fire you afterwards and make certain to blacklist you.. Good luck finding a job after the fact. people these days. A bunch of entitled pricks thinking they should get free money.
...until you go out on disability and apply for benefits so you can still have a roof over your head until you go back to work. Funny how people think no one deserves these benefits until they need them.
@@amberlynn5273 These people will start to speak a different tone if they become sick or bedridden for months. Money is everything for them until it's not.
These systems in USA are creating a perpetual cycle of less financial security for working class people.