The Research Behind Ranking Family-friendly Policies

Why is no one taking paternity leave in Japan? Why is there a gap in where parental leave ends and affordable childcare begins? How could self-employed people benefit from family-friendly policies? In our latest podcast, we talk to report authors Kat Chzhen and Anna Gromada about UNICEF Innocenti's report on family-friendly policies in the OECD and EU, explaining how they ranked the countries using comparable data across several indicators including maternity leave, paternity leave, and childcare available to young infants and children. We breakdown what these rankings say about policies available to parents and what directions different countries are moving in to support families better. Learn more and download the report: unicef-irc.org/family-friendly