From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: F<O>CUS/HEALTH: How U.S. Compares....**PAID** Maternity leave...

F<O>CUS/HEALTH: How U.S. Compares....**PAID** Maternity leave...

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Duration of nationally provided PAID maternity leave in weeks, 1988 
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COUNTRY          WEEKS  COUNTRY        WEEKS 
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United Kingdom      40  Germany           14 
Finland             38  Ireland           14 
Denmark             28  Japan             14 
France           16 28  Spain             14 
Italy               22  Netherlands       12 
Norway              20  Sweden            12 
Canada           17-18  Switzerland     8-12 
Austria             16  United States      0 
Belgium             14 

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.     

New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.     
$10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2    
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[Transcribed by jhwoodar@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Woodard)] 

    ``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.'' 