Bridging The Gender Gap: The Problems With Parental Leave | Learn Liberty

► Has this video left you with questions? Ask 'em here:http://bit.ly/1pHWbNQWhile it sounds good on paper, mandated maternity leave doesn’t always achieve what it’s created for. Even mandating paternity leave has its own complications. The truth is that, while women are temporarily away, their career goals and advancement opportunities can be permanently stunted. Policy mandates, in practice, can be inefficient; in the worst cases, they can impede the cultural changes they seek to encourage. Professor Lauren Hall discusses the disparities.► Learn More / Sources:• On % Female Fortune 500 CEO’s:http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-ceos-fortune-1000• On % Female Members of congress:http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/levels_of_office/Congress-Current.php• On % Female College presidents:http://www.acenet.edu/the-presidency/columns-and-features/Pages/The-American-College-President-Study.aspx• On % Female Science and tech jobs (STEM):http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/documents/womeninstemagaptoinnovation8311.pdf• European countries maternity leave:http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/12/12/among-38-nations-u-s-is-the-holdout-when-it-comes-to-offering-paid-parental-leave/• Do male professors do even less on leave?Rhoads, S. E.,&Rhoads, C. H. (2012). Gender roles and infant/toddler care: Male and female professors on the tenure track. Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, 6(1), 13-31.http://shell.newpaltz.edu/jsec/articles/volume6/issue1/Rhoads_Vol6Iss1.pdf• U.S. Women more likely to be CEOs in the US than other with more generous leave policies:http://papers.nber.org/tmp/11809-w18702.pdf• What constitutes “long” and “short” term maternity leaves:Henderson, Sarah, Alana S Jeydel, and Sarah Henderson. 2010. Women and Politics in a Global World. New York: Oxford University Press.http://www.amazon.com/Women-Politics-Global-World-Henderson/dp/0195388070► http://LearnLiberty.org► http://twitter.com/LearnLiberty► http://google.com/+LearnLiberty► http://facebook.com/LearnLiberty► http://youtube.com/user/LearnLiberty