Your company does all the right things and makes all the right noises. It subsidizes employees' child-care expenses, or at least offers help in finding care. Companies are stuck in the land of The Organization Man, comforted by the conceit that work is the dominant force in their employees' lives.
Work sets the rules, and people arrange their lives accordingly.
A few smart companies are already trying. The best work-life policy, they would say, is no policy at all. We want them to make the decisions about how they work and how they live. We'll just set realistic goals for their work and then get out of the way. The idea is both revolutionary and obvious.