paid maternity leave

基本解释

In recent years women employees in some units have been given six months' paid maternity leave.
近几年，有些单位的女职工实际享有半年的带薪产假。
They are entitled to (but don't always get) three months' paid maternity leave and mostly return to work afterwards.
她们享有（但大多数情况得不到）三个月的产假，但很多人之后马上投入工作。
In fact, many new moms around the world have to go back to work as soon as possible after their child is born because they have no access to paid maternity leave.
事实上，全球许多女性因为没有产假，在生下孩子后就立刻返回工作岗位。

Iceland offers just three months of partially paid maternity leave, a far less generous policy than other countries.
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But the U.S. is one of the last remaining developed countries that does not have a national paid maternity leave policy.
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Offer pregnant women paid maternity leave (3 weeks or more) and then the opportunity to take additional time off as unpaid leave.
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