Anne Hathaway spoke out against America’s parental leave policies in a powerful speech to the United Nations on International Women’s Day. Federal U.S. law currently dictates that women receive 12 weeks of unpaid leave, but paid leave is not mandated. Companies sometimes offer maternity pay, however, only 14 percent of Americans have access to paid family leave, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s just unrealistic for the modern workforce, said Hathaway, who last year became a U.N. goodwill ambassador focusing on parental leave. Low-income workers have even less access to paid leave, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found, as do men.

Source: Huffington Post March 09, 2017 11:05 UTC