Only 27% of American employers offered paid parental leave in 2019.

2019年，只有27%的美国雇主提供带薪育儿假。

Netflix and Virgin Management increased paid parental leave to a full year.

Netflix和Virgin集团将带薪育儿假提高到了一整年。

Almost every other country in the world provides some form of parental leave.

世界上几乎所有其他国家都提供某种形式的育儿假。

Thus, they were allowed to take 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

因此，她们可以休 16 周的带薪育儿假。

This means it is possible for one parent to take nine months of parental leave.

这意味着父母中的一位可以享受9个月的产假。

The Finnish government has decided to give mothers and fathers seven months of parental leave.

芬兰政府已经决定给母亲和父亲7个月的产假。

It is the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't offer paid parental leave.

因为美国是世界上唯一不提供带薪育儿假的工业化国家。

The measures include offering parental leave, extending maternity leave and marriage leave, and increasing paternity leave.

这些措施包括提供育儿假，延长产假和婚假，以及增加陪产假。

Men and women's experiences of the return to work following parental leave was also considerably different.

男性和女性在育儿假后重返工作岗位的经历也大相径庭。

The US is the only developed nation in the world without a national paid parental leave program.

美国是世界上唯一没有带薪育儿假的发达国家。

He said equal parental leave is an essential component to creating gender equality in the workplace.

他说，平等的育儿假是在工作场所创造性别平等的重要组成部分。

In 2013, provisions for paid parental leave were in only 66 countries out of 190 UN member states.

在2013年，关于带薪产假的法规，联合国190个国家中只有66个国家出台了。

That's why employers are our third player in the parental leave conversation.

这就是雇主是产假争论中的第三个参与者的原因。

Prioritize the creation of family friendly workplaces which include flexible working hours, paid parental leave, and in house childcare facilities.

优先创建适合家庭的工作场所，包括灵活的工作时间，带薪产假，以及室内托儿所。

Far from not being able to afford to have paid parental leave, it seems we can’t afford not to.

带薪产假并不会让公司损失什么，不放带薪产假的代价反而更高。

Maybe much more on, say, parental leave.

也许更多关于育儿假。

And then, we've been on parental leave, both my wife and I, about one and a half years each, in total.

然后，我和我妻子都休了育儿假，总共大约一年半。

Give them affordable health care, give them affordable childcare, give them paid parental leave.

给他们负担得起的医疗保健，给他们负担得起的托儿服务，给他们带薪育儿假。

These gender dynamics are helped along by corporate and governmental policies that set aside parental leave only for women.

这些性别动态得到了企业和政府政策的帮助，这些政策只为女性留出育儿假。

That brings us to the 4th and final major player in the debates over paid parental leave: healthcare officials.

医疗保健官员。