Facebook Twitter Pinterest Serena Williams’s husband, Alexis Ohanian, holds their daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr, at a tennis match in Perth, Australia. He says a big part of encouraging men who have access to paternity leave to take it is about redefining what male success looks like. Photograph: Neilson Barnard/Getty ImagesOhanian says he did not consider the practicalities of paternity leave until he was about to become a father. He also takes hope from recently passed legislation entitling 2.1 million federal workers to 12 weeks of paid parental leave. To get to gender equality, though, he says it’s essential that men take as much parental leave as women.

Source: The Guardian January 29, 2020 06:56 UTC