Still, some companies do provide not only paid maternity leave but paid paternity leave as well.

然而，一些公司不仅提供带薪产假，甚至提供带薪陪产假。

A number of states, such as California introduced paid maternity leave.

在一些州，如加利福尼亚，已经实行了带薪产假。

The U.S. is the only developed country without mandated paid maternity leave on the national level.

美国是发达国家中唯一一个没有国家级带薪产假规定的国家。

A new law in New York assures new mothers 12 weeks of paid maternity leave.

纽约一部新的法律保障新生儿母亲有12周的带薪产假。

Only four countries in the world do not guarantee any form of paid maternity leave.

世界上只有4个国家并不能保证任何形式的带薪产假。

The UK passed their first paid maternity leave laws through the Employment Protection Act of 1975.

英国在1975年的《就业保护法》中通过了第一条带薪产假法。

In 2007, Google sweetened its leave policy, extending paid maternity leave to nearly five months, from three.

2007年，谷歌放宽了休假政策，将带薪产假从三个月延长至近五个月。

China's population crisis cannot be wholly addressed by the three-child policy alone or extending paid maternity leave.

仅靠三胎政策或延长带薪产假无法完全解决中国的人口危机。

Of all the industrialized nations in the world, the United States is the only one without a paid maternity leave policy.

女性在努力照顾孩子的同时，仍继续留在职场打拼，在这一点上，美国跟有些国家相比是落后的。在工业化国家里，美国是唯一一个没有带薪产假的国家。

In France, for example, women are guaranteed at least 16 weeks paid maternity leave, 26 weeks if it's their third child.

以法国为例, 保证女性至少有16周带薪产假, 如果有第三个孩子的话则有26周。

Here’s another example. Today, we are the only advanced country on Earth that doesn’t guarantee paid sick leave or paid maternity leave to our workers.

再举个例子。今天，我们是全球唯一一个不给员工带薪病假和产假的发达国家。

Meanwhile, during the same time frame in the US, efforts to enact paid maternity leave nationwide stalled, stopped and started again before a resolution was reached.

与此同时，在美国，全国范围内推行带薪产假的努力一度停滞、停摆、重启，直至达成最终决议。

Only three countries in the world report that they don’t offer paid maternity leave. Three. And the United States is one of them. It’s time to change that.

全世界只有三个国家公开表示他不提供带薪产假。只有三个。而合众国就是其一。是时候做出改变了。

In nations with paid maternity leaves, like the UK and Canada, questions about the duration of the leave and the amount of compensation remain in the public discourse.

在英国和加拿大等有带薪产假的国家，公众仍在讨论产假的时长和补偿金额的问题。

And in the US, where no paid maternity leave decisions have been reached, activists continue to agitate for change that benefits working families and the babies in their care.

而在美国，则还没有达成带薪产假的决定，活动家们继续鼓动者变革，以造福工薪家庭和他们所照顾的婴儿。

But while the US government in the 1970s was grappling over how to classify and protect pregnant women, other nations around the world were going one step further and passing paid maternity leave laws.

但是，当美国政府在上世纪70年代还在纠结如何对孕妇进行分类和保护时，世界上其他国家则更进一步，通过了带薪产假法。

A 2015 study states that there could be a positive correlation between paid maternity leave during the birth of a first child, and lower instances of late life depression for women over the age of 50.

2015年的一项研究表明，生第一个孩子时的带薪产假与50岁以上女性晚年抑郁症发病率的降低之间可能存在正相关关系。

We are one of the few countries in the world that does not offer paid maternity leave to new moms and one of a slightly larger number that doesn't offer paid leave to new dads, Shabo said.

我们是在这个世界上没有为新妈妈提供带薪产假为数不多的国家之一而且在不为新爸爸提供带薪休假这一问题上占有略大的一个数字。莎波尔说道。

In Western Europe, where I live, and in many other countries, states provide support for citizens in need, including parents who are home with young children, such as paid maternity leave and financial support throughout the childhood, if needed.

在我居住的西欧和许多其他国家/地区，各州为有需要的公民提供支持， 包括在家带小孩的父母， 例如带薪产假和整个童年时期的经济支持（如果需要）。