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Caregiving responsibilities disproportionately fall to women and due to these responsibilities, combined with a lack of paid leave (almost one in four mothers have returned to work within two weeks of giving birth²⁶), women are often forced to spend time out of the workforce. Research shows that workers can expect to lose up to three or four times their annual salary for each year out of the workforce due to the loss in future income and raises.²⁷

Women who have paid leave are more likely to stay in the workforce the year following birth and are 54% more likely to report wage increases.²⁸ Paid leave for fathers also plays an important role. For every month a father takes paternity leave, his partner's income increases by 6.7%.²⁹,³⁰