Since taking four months off after his daughter with Serena Williams was born in 2017, Reddit CEO Alexis Ohanian has become a leader in the fight for paid
paternalparental leave, and his social media profiles are the front lines.Now, Ohanian is taking the fight to Congress. In October, he spent an entire week on Capitol Hill lobbying business leaders and lawmakers from both parties for a national family leave policy.
(Business Insider, October 31, 2019)
That’s a start.
But what women really need is for men to assume a more equitable share of the burden of raising and caring for children through adulthood. Only then would taking parental leave not be tantamount to losing one’s place up the ladder to success.