More than 70 lifestyle brands have partnered with the Paid Leave For All campaign and are 'closing their doors' today in order to promote paid family and medical leave.
Tessa Petak is a Brooklyn-based writer who helps to cultivate InStyle's illustrious news coverage across a wide range of topics including celebrity, fashion, and entertainment. She also produces and composes celebrity profiles and features for the site and InStyle's digital issues.in partnership with the Paid Leave for All campaign. The one-day event will aim to encourage the United States Congress to pass paid family and medical leave for all working individuals.
Women are a huge portion of those impacted by the U.S.'s lack of paid leave policy, and according to the initiative's website, "nearly one in four women have returned to work within two weeks of giving birth." The movement is taking place in honor of Women’s History Month and meant to replicate what the workforce would look like if women were to leave it due to lack of maternity and medical leave.
“On this day, women across the country are coming together in solidarity to write our labor back into history — one where our work is visible, valued, and protected, wherever it is,” Paid Leave for All director Dawn Huckelbridge said in a press release. “Paid leave is a powerful tool for economic growth and for gender and racial equity, and Congress can’t take women, our issues—or our votes—for granted any longer.”It's not just women who would benefit from this federal policy.
“We cannot solve this issue ourselves," she continued. "Letting things continue as they are is too high of a cost — to not only the emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing of women, but also to small businesses and even the economy at large.
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