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Netflix offers its employees as much as one year of paid time off to new mothers and fathers.

GOP senators offer their own staff generous maternity leave benefits versus their present position on expanding paid leave to private workers.

According to the United Nations’ International Labour Organization, there are only two countries in the world that don’t have some form of legally protected, partially paid time off for working women who’ve just had a baby: Papua New Guinea and the U.S. The U.S. is also way behind the 78 countries that also offer leave to fathers.