A year of paid maternity leave is the baseline, not the luxury

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The speaker frames paid maternity leave as obviously sensible — 'Mom should get like at least a year off for newborns' — treating it as a baseline human consideration rather than a progressive policy debate. By contrast, in the US, even a few weeks of protected leave is treated as a corporate gift. The framing reveals how policy shapes what counts as common sense.

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