Paid Family Leave: Women Voters Overwhelmingly in Favor

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and medical leave if reelected in November. But the Republican party has yet to commit to passing any kind of paid leave legislation—although sit on a recently formed bipartisan working group for paid leave.America remains in the world to offer no form of paid family and medical leave.

The effects are clear: according to a Department of Labor survey, one in four women have gone back to work within two weeks of giving birth.Glamour’s YouGov poll also reveals further damning statistics.

According to the representative survey of nearly 2,000 women, nearly half of all women—48 percent—have gone back to work within six weeks of having a baby.That rises to 56 percent of women returning to work within six weeks of having a baby, in families whose income is under $50,000 a year.Most women receive their first medical check postpartum after six weeks.

And leave period, according to a paper published by the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health. The same study also noted a link between postpartum depression and the lack of paid leave: “Among women who took maternity leaves of 12 weeks or less, every additional week of leave was associated with a lesser odds of experiencing postpartum depressive symptoms.”These figures are all in stark contrast to countries such as the UK, where recent research findings found that on average most women who had a child or adopted .Today, July 10, Glamour is traveling to Washington D.C.