> […] especially in the US where leave is not mandated. Slightly meta, but I wish people would stop saying "the US" as if it's a monolith. It's not. It's a fed

> […] especially in the US where leave is not mandated. Slightly meta, but I wish people would stop saying "the US" as if it's a monolith. It's not. It's a federation of smaller entities. It's saying "the EU" parental leave policy as a monolith: it's non-sensical. The EU has a whole bunch of different countries which do their own thing, and the US has a whole bunch of states that do their own thing. Just like people might compare Denmark versus Spain on weeks given, you have to compare (e.g.) Illinois to Oregon. The EU as a whole has federalism, and so does the US.