The Roberts had heard about shared parental leave (SPL), the policy, introduced in 2015, that allows eligible parents to split maternity leave. As well as managing life-changing new circumstances at home alone, she later had to pass up a promotion that would have clashed with the end of her maternity leave. Under SPL, a mother must take two weeks of maternity leave after the birth, but can move to SPL for the remaining 50 weeks, 37 of which are paid. Today, couples in Sweden have one leave policy. As a result, fathers have been taking steadily bigger chunks of the total leave period – up to 27.9% in 2017.

Source: The Guardian October 05, 2019 05:01 UTC