When Twitter Inc. Head of Parag Agrawal said this week that he would take “a few weeks” after the birth of his second child, he was praised for violating a peak executive and leave paternity. Others say the plan is not far enough.
In a sign of how fast the norms evolved in companies A.S., the big question triggered by the agrawal announcement was why he did not use more than 20 weeks twitter offers. Reddit Inc. Alexis co-founder Ohanian urges agrawal to “take the time you need.” The others note that by taking more leave, agrawal can strengthen to employees that it is safe for them to do the same.

“You can divide leaving parents, it takes a few weeks to make sure everything at home is A-OK, then take every Friday to use the remaining leave,” Oh Agriculture, which has become a vocal advocate for parents’ leave, suggested on Twitter. The venture capital company, initialized, currently offers four months of parental leave to employees. In October 2021, the Co-Founder Garry Tan said he took advantage of the full four months when it was available for him “to ensure everyone in initialization feels like they can do it.”

Agrawal, a former chairman of Twitter technology, was named up with the main role of the executive role in November, taking over to co-founder Jack Dorsey. During leave, agrawal “plans to connect with the executive team, which is the most suitable for him, his wife and company,” said Laura Yagerman, a spokesman for a company based in San Francisco.

“On Twitter, we encourage and fully support employees to take parents’ leave in any way the most suitable for everyone,” he said in a statement.

California law mandates that employers offer workers who meet the requirements of up to 12 weeks of not paid parents’ leave; The provisions of other countries ensure that leave is paid for up to six weeks for several employees who are new parents.

There was no minimum federal for paid parents’ leave, although Biden administration included 12 weeks of payment paid in the initial design of a better rebuilding plan. That number is then adjusted to four weeks. Only 23% of workers at A.S. Having access to paid parents’ leave, both through entrepreneurs or government programs.

Nine in 10 people took several forms of parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child, although most took less than 10 days. They are also 50% less likely than women to take the full amount of time given to them.

In a report last year, the US Census Bureau found that 33% of men took parents leave paid in the first 12 weeks after the birth of children, compared with almost 45% of women. Men are even less likely than women to take off parents who have not been paid, but are more likely to use the vacation time paid as a form of parents’ leave.

There are still stigmas left around paid leave for my father, as evidenced by a response to the Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he would take a parent’s leave to tie with his twin. Meta platform Inc. Mark Zuckerberg’s CEO, meanwhile, took a paid leave two months after his daughter’s birth in 2015 and 2017; The company offers four months.

If men are preferred to actually use their father’s leave, “which brings this assumption that the woman will do all the work,” Buttigieg said in October.

“We are almost the only country left in the world who do not have some kind of policy,” he said. “When parents take the old man’s leave, they need to be supported.”