Promoting Paid Family Leave Publications

This paper provides a brief history of paid family leave policy, in the United States and abroad; synthesizes cutting-edge knowledge about paid leave and its impact on family and civic life; and concludes with a set of recommendations – for policymakers, researchers, public health and early childhood stakeholders, business leaders, and federal, state, and local education agencies – to guide the work going forward.

Paid family leave policies can improve child health and development, maternal health, family economic security, and gender equity in the home and the workplace. Yet there is much work to be done across the spectrum of researchers, advocates, policymakers, businesses, labor unions, and engaged citizens to advance paid family leave policy for American workers.