Maternity leave Quote by Barack Obama

Send me a bill that gives every worker in America the opportunity to earn seven days of paid sick leave.

— Barack Obama

I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

— Carolyn Maloney

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

— Tony Abbott

Equal pay, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare - everywhere I go around the United States, as I talk to…

— Valerie Jarrett

Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our…

— Mark Dayton

One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.

— Jackie Speier

Early childhood offerings vary, but everywhere in Europe and in Canada, they're far more generous than in the United States. Ukrainian dads may not…

— Pamela Druckerman

“[D]emanding wages for housework (…) forced recognition of the fact that the domestic work which women do has economic value. But many feminists feel…

— Nivedita Menon

As a public health official, paid sick leave is first and foremost an issue of health - of people's lives.

— Leana S. Wen

Paid sick leave is a public health necessity. Not only does it allow employees to seek medical care promptly and appropriately, it reduces the…

— Leana S. Wen

Beginning in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, when women started to go into the formal workforce, leaving working at home to working in…

— Jody Heymann