To the Editor: Hoffman and colleagues’1 excellent review highlights the tightrope women walk when pursuing both a career and children. It is clear that, internationally, inflexible workplace policies as well as more insidious outdated attitudes towards working women cause significant damage to society as a whole.
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- 3. Swedish Institute. Family‐friendly life the Swedish way, 2020. https://sweden.se/society/family-friendly-life-the-swedish-way (viewed Oct 2020).
- 4. United Kingdom Government. Paternity leave and pay. https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave (viewed Oct 2020).
- 5. Gordon H, Szram J. Paternity leave experiences of NHS doctors. Clin Med (Lond) 2013; 13: 426–430.
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