Statutory rights to maternity leave are available to working women in 185 countries, but only 78 offer statutory rights to paternity leave. Nordic countries set the global benchmark for policies that ...

According to a long-standing cultural and legal tradition, paternity is an intractable problem. Whereas the mother can be known at the moment of birth, the father, it is said, is always uncertain. DNA ...

Even when paid leave is guaranteed, many men fear it would set them back at work. A new study from Norway shows a way to a solution. By Seema Jayachandran Many men say they are reluctant to take ...

Happy Father’s Day! Read all of our dad stories here. The social—and corporate—conventions around new fatherhood are changing rapidly. More men than ever are taking time away from work in the first ...