A brand new KFF evaluation finds that fewer than half of employed ladies ages 18-64 say their employer affords a paid parental depart profit, resembling maternity or paternity depart (43%) or household and medical depart (44%). Entry to those office advantages varies extensively by employment standing, earnings, location, and stage of training. Ladies who work full-time and have larger incomes are extra probably than their part-time or low-income counterparts to say their employer affords any paid depart advantages.
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, an absence of paid depart advantages has had vital implications for employed ladies with youngsters, significantly moms with low incomes. Amongst working dad and mom, ladies proceed to be the first caregivers when their youngsters are sick; in comparison with 19% of working fathers, 56% of working moms report they’re those to care for kids when they’re ailing and can’t attend faculty. A better share of moms with low incomes (61%) say they’re those to take care of sick youngsters in comparison with moms with larger incomes (53%). Amongst working moms who should keep dwelling to take care of sick youngsters, 76% of these with low incomes (under 200% of the federal poverty stage) report shedding pay after they miss work to take care of sick youngsters, twice the share of moms with larger incomes (38%).
These findings come from the 2022 KFF Ladies’s Well being Survey, which examines a number of subjects associated to ladies’s well being and well-being. The evaluation relies on a nationally consultant pattern of 5,145 ladies and 1,225 males ages 18-64. The info introduced are primarily based on survey respondents’ self-identified gender as a “girl” or “man.” Non-cisgendered individuals are included within the survey however will not be reported right here due to an inadequate pattern measurement.
Extra findings embody the next:
- Forty-nine % of employed ladies with larger incomes say their employer affords paid household and medical depart in comparison with 33% of girls with decrease incomes.
- Seventy-three % of girls who’re employed full-time report that their employer affords paid sick depart, in comparison with 31% who work part-time.
- The share of fathers who say they normally maintain sick youngsters who can not attend faculty has doubled previously two years, rising from 9% in 2020 to 19% in 2022. Whereas the share grew, greater than half of moms (56%) stated they take accountability for the kids who should keep dwelling from faculty due to sickness.
Be taught extra about these 2022 Ladies’s Well being Survey findings within the temporary “Office Advantages and Household Well being Care Duties.”