18 of the best major companies in the US for maternity leave

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Birthing parents at Amazon are offered up to 20 weeks of maternity leave.

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I'm self-employed, and family planning as a freelancer is scary. I don't have parental leave, and I don't know how much money to save.

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The author (not pictured) enjoys freelancing, but says the lifestyle makes it difficult to plan for a future with her husband.

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Benefits like parental leave and PTO are on the chopping block. Here's what readers are saying.

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I'm a dad who took paternity leave 3 times and learned how to do it better each time. Here's what Scott Galloway got wrong.

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Paul Sullivan took paternity leaves from his job as a New York Times columnist when his daughters were born.

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'You're a grown man, you can sort this out': Goldman Sachs banker wins unfair dismissal case over sex discrimination

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Jonathan Reeves, a former Goldman Sachs banker, won an unfair dismissal case at a UK employment tribunal.

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A mom in Denmark was offered 1 year of paid parental leave but chose to come back to work early. She felt she had to show she was still valuable.

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Natalia Rogaczewska took nine and a half months of maternity leave and worked a four-day week for a year.

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A mom in Sweden took 21 months off when her kids were born, and her partner took 15. Sharing parental leave changed their expectations of each other.

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Nicola Lindgren, her husband and their two kids.
"Having my husband take a good chunk of parental leave made me feel like we got to walk a mile in each other's shoes," Lindgren said.

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