It’s one of our nation’s most depressing claims to fame, on par with our stunning guns per capita figure or gargantuan prison population: The United States is one of just three countries in the world that doesn’t guarantee paid time off for new mothers. Only 13 percent of American workers have access to paid family leave through their employers.
But as many times as I’ve read—and written about—such statistics, I confess I’ve never fully explored the obvious question: Without a federal family leave law, what exactly do American women do? Just how soon after having a child do they typically get back to the daily grind?
[For more of this story, written by Maya Dusenbery, go to http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/cmon-america]
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