parental leave

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noun

a leave of absence from a job for a parent to care for a new baby.

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Words nearby parental leave

parent, parentage, parental, parental generation, parental home, parental leave, parent cell, parent company, parent compound, parent cyst, parenteral

How to use parental leave in a sentence

When men, on average, take just one day of parental leave for every month a woman takes, they unintentionally reinforce sexist stereotypes and harm new moms, who end up hitting a “maternal wall” when they do take longer leave.
Women Have Lost a Disproportionate Number of Jobs Due to COVID-19. Here's How We Can Start to Fix a Broken System|Bonnie Hammer|January 25, 2021|Time
There were some changes that went into effect this year, including increasing paid parental leave to 12 weeks and adding telemedicine as a covered benefit.
‘Not just the Zoom happy hour’: Why publishers are adding benefits to lift employee peace of mind|Kayleigh Barber|January 22, 2021|Digiday
Paid parental leave is good for families, good for children and good for working parents, and America’s failure on this matter is so self-evident that we don’t need to spend more than this one paragraph emphasizing it.
Meghan McCain learned about the need for maternity leave the hard way. Nobody should have to.|Monica Hesse|January 6, 2021|Washington Post
This, obviously, is harder for women who are poor, and especially in countries like the United States, where there is no mandatory paid parental leave and only a small percentage of working mothers get it from their employers.
Startups are racing to reproduce breast milk in the lab|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review

In 2017, Chobani expanded its parental leave policy and now offers generous fertility benefits.
Chobani’s radical plan to take care of its hourly workers: Pay them more|Beth Kowitt|October 26, 2020|Fortune
“We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.
France Kills Charlie Hebdo Murderers|Nico Hines|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Most often, the doctrine is invoked by minors seeking an abortion without parental consent.
Should Teens Have The Right To Die?|Brandy Zadrozny|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The same Pediatrics journal notes that 17 states have some form of exception to the standard parental consent requirement.
Should Teens Have The Right To Die?|Brandy Zadrozny|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Some seventy-plus countries currently offer some paternity leave or parental leave days reserved for the father.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But outside of a few European countries and Quebec, this leave is usually two weeks or less and usually unpaid.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
As Perker said this, he looked towards the door, with an evident desire to render the leave-taking as brief as possible.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
Now for the tempering of the Gudgeons, I leave it to the judgment of the Workman; but a word or two of the polishing of it.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
We can do as we like with Hindu and Mussalman so long as we leave their respective religions untouched.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
“You must leave this house this moment,” she cried, with a stamp, with gleaming eyes and very pale.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu