Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, husband of Serena Williams and father of their daughter, Olympia, is on a mission to get dads the mandated right to take paid paternity leave.
He and Dove Men+Care are asking men and women to sign The Pledge for Paternity Leave. Ohanian plans to bring the pledge to lawmakers on Capitol Hill this fall in a push to pass federal paid family leave legislation.
"Even with all the financial advantages we have, even with everything else we have going for us, seeing my wife, I mean literally with a hole still in her abdomen, and then my newborn daughter, seeing our family in that situation, that was the only priority I had in my life for those weeks," he said."Had I not had the peace of mind of knowing that I had a job that I could go back to, it would have been so traumatizing.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, have another bill, the Economic Security for New Parents Act, that would allow parents to apply their future Social Security benefits to paid leave. In the U.S., only 16% of civilian workers have access to paid family leave and 88% have access to unpaid family leave, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics . The U.S. is the only advanced industrialized nation without a guarantee of paid leave for new parents, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The messages sent by Ohanian's public paternity leave and other dads taking time off are shifting the needle, fellow dads say. "I felt distracted and it was really depressing," he said."I wanted to be at home helping out with the baby and my wife too, who was still recovering from childbirth." "Those 12 weeks made me more comfortable and I think it made George more comfortable too," he said."It really just changed the dynamic at home because I felt like I was an equal parent with my wife."
"I hope this has a huge impact on maternity leave," Ohanian said of his push for dads."If more and more dads are taking the time off, if it becomes so normalized that any time any employee, man or woman, is going to have a child, then it destigmatizes women in the workforce who historically have suffered because of the specter of having a child and taking time off and maybe never coming back into the workforce.
Women in the workforce face similar discrimination when they are placed on the so-called"mommy track." That is when they start to earn less — a 4% reduction in pay per child, according to a 2014 study — and face more discrimination when it comes to assignments and promotions, research shows.
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