News Comment #4
September 21, 2022
“Companies Are Cutting Back on Maternity and Paternity Leave.”
The lede of this article is “Many employers are shrinking the number of paid weeks of maternity and paternity leave they will offer.” I think the author wrote a good lede by explaining what the article is going to be about without completely giving away all of the information.
Some employers are shrinking the amount of paid leave they offer parents. In 2020, the paid maternity leave was 53%. This is now a much smaller 35%.
Paternity time has been shrunk as well. The paid leave was 44% in 2020, whereas now, it is 27%.
While statistics are important, this article seemed to have had too many. We didn’t read a quote from someone whom is experiencing these problems. I would have enjoyed to see more real-life examples earlier on in the article.
I did enjoy reading how some companies are retaliating against this, although. WSJ wrote “As some companies take leaves away, others are expanding benefits, widening the divide between workers who have parental supports at work and those who don’t.”
This quote made me want to look more into what the decision-making process looks like on the managerial side of a company.
September 23rd, 2022 at 3:57 pm
Nicely done, Taryn. I am not a reader of the WSJ, but I would assume numbers are important to its readers. Maybe more important than quotes.