{"id":3479,"date":"2018-03-08T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:49:23","slug":"maternity-and-paternity-policies-are-catching-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/maternity-and-paternity-policies-are-catching-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternity and Paternity Policies Are Catching On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies in the U.S. aren&#8217;t required to provide paid leave to new moms and dads, but it seems the practice is catching on regardless.<\/p>\n<p>About 65% of people surveyed in the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably say their employers offer paid maternity and paternity leave. More than 5,000 people, predominantly in tech, were surveyed in the query.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3483 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/cho.png\" alt=\"cho\" width=\"693\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/cho-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/cho.png 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>San Francisco is at the top<\/b><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco employers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/san-francisco-leads-the-pack-on-gender-diversity-conversations\/\">lead the pack<\/a> when it comes to\u00a0 being open about issues related to gender and diversity, so it&#8217;s no surprise that they&#8217;re also driving change on the maternity\/paternity front. Seventy-nine percent of respondents in the Golden Gate city say their company offers some sort of paid paternity and maternity leave, according to the query.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3482 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/cho2.png\" alt=\"cho2\" width=\"695\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/cho2-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/cho2.png 695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>Data is new as of March 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies in the U.S. aren&#8217;t required to provide paid leave to new moms and dads, but it seems the practice is catching on regardless. About 65% of people surveyed in the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably say their employers offer paid maternity and paternity leave. More than 5,000 people, predominantly in tech, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/maternity-and-paternity-policies-are-catching-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479"}],"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=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}