Speaking to the ECHO about where the idea came from, Rachel said: “I started Pens and Needles while I was on maternity leave. I've always had an artistic bug in me. My nan had taught me how to sow.

When a woman informed her boss she was expecting, he congratulated her and approved her paid maternity leave without ...

It wasn’t until Benjamin saw her “maternity records” while poking around her online medical chart — doctors’ notes taken from ...

A new study questions whether or not lengthier maternity leaves benefit mothers as much as people think by examining one ...

A third of fertility treatment patients consider leaving work due to the physical and emotional toll – as campaigners call ...

Kylie Kelce returns to her podcast after welcoming her baby daughter Finn and got real about what maternity leave is really like The mom of four shared that it wasn't just taking a vacation and ...

Parental leave is often treated as a checkbox issue—handled quietly by HR, focused on paperwork, and confined to a narrow window of time. But Amy Beacom, founder and CEO of the Center for ...

The Senate and House have passed a bill that would give paid parental leave for state workers. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has said it's a top priority on her agenda.

But the next step — paid parental leave for all Alabama families — still awaits action. Sarah Crites is an ICU nurse and IVF patient. She lives in Auburn.

The bill would also provide four weeks of paid leave for state employees who adopt a child. The House previously approved the legislation with broad bipartisan support in an 87-2 floor vote.

Among the employed fathers, 73.4% reported taking any leave, paid or unpaid, after their infant’s birth, with 53.3% taking as least some paid leave. Median leave length was 1 week among all fathers.

On Friday, the House passed the Mississippi State Employees Paid Parental Leave Act, which had been recently amended by the Senate to establish a smaller period of paid leave for mothers and ...