Estimating the costs for implementing a maternity leave cash transfer program for women employed in the informal sector in Brazil and Ghana [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Background Maternity leave policies are designed to protect gender equality and the health of mothers in the workforce and their children. However, maternity leave schemes are often linked to jobs in the formal sector economy.
Grace Carroll +7 more
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Returning to Work After Maternity Leave: A Qualitative Study of Nurses' Experiences and Factors Influencing Their Retention [PDF]
Nursing OpenAims The aim of this research was to explore the experiences of nurses returning to work following maternity leave and the factors that influence them to stay or leave their positions. Design Descriptive qualitative study.
Elizabeth Johnson +2 more
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Congratulations, You’re Pregnant! Now About Your Shifts . . . : The State of Maternity Leave Attitudes and Culture in EM [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2017 Introduction: Increasing attention has been focused on parental leave, but little is known about early leave and parental experiences for male and female attending physicians.
Casey Z. MacVane +5 more
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Work experience of breastfeeding nurses returning to work after maternity leave in Liaoning Province of China: A qualitative study [PDF]
Nursing OpenAim With the implementation of China's three‐child policy in 2021, the nurse population faces an increase in the number of breastfeeding nurses returning to work after maternity leave.
Xin‐li Wan +2 more
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Is the impact of paid maternity leave policy on the prevalence of childhood diarrhoea mediated by breastfeeding duration? A causal mediation analysis using quasi-experimental evidence from 38 low-income and middle-income countries [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjectives Quasi-experimental evidence suggests that extending the duration of legislated paid maternity leave is associated with lower prevalence of childhood diarrhoea in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). This could be due to a variety of
Yan Chai, Arijit Nandi, Jody Heymann
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Leave policy after stillbirth in LMICs: how much are we thinking about bereaved mothers? A scoping review [PDF]
BMJ OpenIntroduction Low-income and-middle-income countries (LMICs) contribute to the maximum burden of stillbirth globally, which affects parents in various tangible and intangible ways, emphasising the need for having a provision of parental leave to recover ...
Prashant Sharma +10 more
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Paid Maternity Leave: Shaping the Future [PDF]
, 2003 Over the middle months of 2002,\ud Australians participated in a lively\ud public discussion of the possibility of\ud legislated paid materniry leave. This\ud followed Goward's (2002a) options\ud paper on paid maternity leave, released\ud in April 2002 ...
Grace, Marty
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Maternity Leave and Gender Equality: Comparative Studies of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand
Populasi, 2022 This article discusses the implications of maternity leave on gender equality by taking comparative cases in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. This article focuses on three important issues, namely the implementation of maternity leave policies, the ...
Viola D. Oceanio
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Maternity Leave in Taiwan [PDF]
Family Relations, 2010 Using the first nationally representative birth cohort study in Taiwan, this paper examines the role that maternity leave policy in Taiwan plays in the timing of mothers returning to work after giving birth, as well as the extent to which this timing is linked to the amount of time mothers spend with their children and their use of breast milk versus ...
Joyce Yen, Feng, Wen-Jui, Han
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The long-run impacts of paid maternity leave on height and educational attainment
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 This study investigates the extent to which paid maternity leave affects educational attainment and adult height in 29 developing countries between 1990 and 2019.
Kien Le, My Nguyen
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