"Fortune 100 firms overwhelmingly offer some paid time off to care for a new child and recover from childbirth. Among the companies in the Fortune 100 that resp

"Fortune 100 firms overwhelmingly offer some paid time off to care for a new child and recover from childbirth. Among the companies in the Fortune 100 that responded to the JEC questionnaire, three-quarters (73.6 percent) offer mothers either paid family or disability leave. Firms are more likely to offer paid family leave to mothers than to fathers as only 32.1 percent report offering paid family leave to fathers. However, most (75.5 percent) firms allow employees to use accrued sick days, and among our sample, nine-out-of-ten (88.7 percent) report offering some kind of paid leave—family leave, pregnancy-related disability leave, or allowing the use of accrued paid sick days—for the birth of a child." http://www.jec.senate.gov/archive/Documents/Reports/03.05.08PaidFamilyLeave.pdf http://www.jec.senate.gov/archive/Documents/Reports/03.05.08... Edit: It also notes that among Fortune 100 companies the median maternal leave is 6 weeks.