Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller; #118; Paid Leave For All - Katie Bethell says “we can win this.”
- Episode Number
- #118
- Producing Organization
- Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
- Contributing Organization
- Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller (San Francisco, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-72061e775c0
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- Description
- Episode Description
- America is one of only two countries in the world where you can be fired for taking a day off in order to give birth (let that sink in for a moment). As it stands, paid leave policy varies from company to company, state to state, but on a national level, there is no policy in place, no minimum requirements or baseline standard that applies to everyone. And it’s not just about moms—this lack of policy also has greater repercussions for how we define a family, in a political sense, and the relationship between the family and the workplace--men included. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kirsten Gillibrand are both bringing attention to these issues, running on platforms of universal childcare, and paid medical and family leave. Katie Bethell, founder and executive director of Paid Leave for the US (PLUS), joins us this week to give us the alarming stats, talk nerdy government logistics, and offer some extremely practical advice on how we can use this particularly potent moment to push for political change. Join us this week on Inflection Point for a look at radical change in action, one decision at a time.
- Broadcast Date
- 2019-08-05
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Parenting
- Women
- Employment
- Subjects
- Maternity Leave
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 00:54:24:01
- Credits
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Guest: Bethell, Katie
Host: Schiller, Lauren
Producing Organization: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller; #118; Paid Leave For All - Katie Bethell says “we can win this.”,” 2019-08-05, Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 6, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-72061e775c0.
- MLA: “Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller; #118; Paid Leave For All - Katie Bethell says “we can win this.”.” 2019-08-05. Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 6, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-72061e775c0>.
- APA: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller; #118; Paid Leave For All - Katie Bethell says “we can win this.”. Boston, MA: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-72061e775c0