Grattan: Expand paid parental leave to fathers

The Grattan Institute has released a new report calling for paid parental leave to be made gender-equal to “deliver both significant social and economic gains”.

Below is the Overview combined with some key charts:

Few policies deliver both significant social and economic gains. But gender-equal paid parental leave is one of them. That is why so many countries have now embraced such policies. The payoffs of the successful schemes are clear: greater parental satisfaction, improvements in child development, higher rates of workforce participation, and greater economic security for women.