Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Parental Leave: What Do Physician Societies Provide for Their Employees?
Originally published 2024-08-12 · Women's Health Reports
SAGE Publications · DOI 10.1089/whr.2024.0043 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Compares publicly advocated family values with societies’ own employee benefits, including paid status, eligibility and non-birthing, adoptive and foster parents.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
Are our own staff offered the parental support we advocate for others?
Compares publicly advocated family values with societies’ own employee benefits, including paid status, eligibility and non-birthing, adoptive and foster parents.
Study context
Parental-leave information from eight national US physician societies in 2023.
Age / stage: Organizational policies; no participant age group.
Read with three questions
- Which societies disclosed policies and which did not?
- How did paid and unpaid benefits differ between birth and non-birthing parents?
- What would policy publication make easier for a prospective employee to assess?
Keep the limits in view
A small policy audit with incomplete disclosure does not measure employee experiences, legal compliance or causal effects on families; policies can change after the study.
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Sofia von Fedak; Sonya Priven; Amna Khalid; Amanda Brooks; Gregg C. Lund (2024). Parental Leave: What Do Physician Societies Provide for Their Employees? Women's Health Reports. https://doi.org/10.1089/whr.2024.0043
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