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  1. Hi,
  2. my name is Sarah Gruber and I'd like to talk about
  3. how paid family leave can help close the gender pay gap.
  4. Many people do not realize that in 1919,
  5. the League of Nations declared that women
  6. should have 12 weeks of paid maternity leave
  7. When we fast forward to 2020 to the United States is one of eight
  8. countries that does not have any sort of comprehensive leave policy for families.
  9. What it looks like in other countries that do have this type of family leave.
  10. If you are in the United Kingdom, you get 41 weeks of pavement
  11. Paid family leave. If you are in Canada, it's 50 weeks of paid leave.
  12. And if you have the opportunity to be raising a family in Sweden,
  13. you actually get a total of 71 weeks of paid family leave.
  14. And what that actually looks like is 480 days where
  15. both parents are home getting paid their full salary,
  16. followed up by a 90 day mommy quota and then a 90 day daddy quota.
  17. Then followed up again with 255 days paid at 78% of your salary
  18. and then followed up by another
  19. A chunk of time, which is 45 days that's paid at a flat rate.
  20. So what can you do to help
  21. get these initiative passed
  22. vote,
  23. seek out candidates who
  24. speak to the benefits of paid family leave.
  25. If you are,
  26. you need to call your senators call your House of Representatives.
  27. If you have the opportunity to work at a company that already offers
  28. paid family leave,
  29. make sure that you're advocating that your employees take that leave.
  30. So that way we create stronger family bonds and
  31. more productive kids in society. Thank you so much.