"The United States is the only nation in the Western industrialized world that does not have paid maternity leave. The Scandinavian nations mandate both maternity and paternity leaves. France, Finland, Sweden, Austria, Portugal, Italy and Spain all guarantee more than three and a half weeks of paid vacation time. Every other nation in the EU as well as the UK guarantees more than two and a half weeks of paid vacation time. The United States guarantees none. "
--Dr. Harriet Fraad, in her essay , "Some Relationships Counseling for Feminism and the Left"---an essay which I strongly recommend. She does a good job of diagnosing where feminism failed and how it should be changed. (Errors include the way it left out class and made a target of men.......not to mention the support provided by the CIA and FBI which pushed the movement in a less radical direction.)
At the time of writing I've not yet finished reading the essay, but have learned a lot.
http://rdwolff.com/content/some-relationship-counseling-feminism-and-left
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