{"id":3096,"date":"2018-01-17T19:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T19:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2018-01-17T19:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T19:24:14","slug":"tell-us-does-your-company-offer-paid-maternity-and-paternity-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/tell-us-does-your-company-offer-paid-maternity-and-paternity-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Us: Does Your Company Offer Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/companies\/adobe\">Adobe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/companies\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/companies\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/companies\/twitter\">Twitter<\/a>, tech companies are paving the way for generous parental leave policies. And right now, about 67% of men and 62% of\u00a0women in the tech industry claim to have paid maternity and paternity leave, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/135-does-your-company-offer-paid-maternity-and-paternity-leave\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3099 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/lem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/lem-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/lem-768x97.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/lem.png 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Those numbers are significant: after all, there are no federal laws mandated maternity or paternity leave, and laws differ vastly from state to state.<\/p>\n<p>Awareness of maternity leave laws appears to increase among people in their mid to late-20s. Workers younger than that have the lowest rates of reporting that their companies offer maternity and paternity policies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3101 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/wowo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/wowo-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/01\/wowo.png 638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of Jan. 17 and includes the responses of more than 5,000 workers across the technology industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Adobe and Amazon to Netflix and Twitter, tech companies are paving the way for generous parental leave policies. And right now, about 67% of men and 62% of\u00a0women in the tech industry claim to have paid maternity and paternity leave, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. Those numbers are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/tell-us-does-your-company-offer-paid-maternity-and-paternity-leave\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,8],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3103,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}