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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
- Subject: "STRONG FAMILY VALUES" (II)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.221148.18177@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:11:48 GMT
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- Duration of nationally provided paid maternity leave in weeks,1988:
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- COUNTRY WEEKS
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- United Kingdom 40
- Finland 38
- Denmark 28
- France 16-28
- Italy 22
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- Norway 20
- Canada 17-18
- Austria 16
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- Belgium 14
- Germany 14
- Ireland 14
- Japan 14
- Spain 14
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- Netherlands 12
- Sweden 12
- Switzerland 8-12
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- United States 0
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- Source: International Labor Organization, "Work and Family: The Child Care
- Challenge," Conditions of Work Digest, vol. 7, February 1988.
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- From page 11 of:
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- _We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
- World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.
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- New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
- $10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2
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- "America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
- This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The
- facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But
- ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation."
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- -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations
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