Impact of extended maternity leave on women's employment issues

Abstract

In the context of the “three-child” policy, the newly introduced “extended maternity leave” policy has significantly increased women’s workplace pressure and had little effect on promoting their willingness to give birth. Only by reducing workplace pressure and childcare costs will women dare to give birth; for employers, especially non-public enterprises, only if the government and society reasonably share the costs of childbirth will enterprises be motivated to accept and encourage female workers to give birth. Encourage childbirth cannot simply from the extension of women’s maternity leave to start, with social values and the status between men and women, family responsibilities change, the development and implementation of policies must be from work, life, to consider the chain reaction, to balance the joint responsibility of men and women to give birth.