A new report released recently – Economic and Social Benefits of Enhanced Paternity Leave: Scoping Review – from King’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership in partnership with Equimundo: Center for Masculinities & Social Justice, reveals that some of the strongest evidence was the link between longer and more generous, protected leave for dads and a reduction in relationship breakdowns after birth. Iceland saw a drop of couple separations of 12 percentage points after the country added four weeks of non-transferable “daddy quota” on top of its existing parental leave settlement…
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