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“The environment of a company, the culture [of it] is set always top down,” said Levs. “The way to counteract these stigmas has to come from top executives actually taking leave.”
Journalist and fatherhood columnist Josh Levs has the answer in All In.
It’s absolutely essential that everyone understand two things: One, that dads are very involved at home, and two, that families are better off when dads are very involved at home.
Josh Levs was invited to speak about his book at Google’s offices in Mountain View, in a live talk broadcast to Google employees worldwide.
‘We have this vicious cycle going on, in which the people running the companies still believe that family concerns are a ‘women’s issue,’ even though the overwhelming majority of today’s fathers are very involved,’ says Levs.
Josh is truly a pioneer. He tells his own story of taking on a policy at CNN’s parent company Time Warner that prevented him from being able to care for his newborn preemie daughter and sick wife. As a result of his legal action and the publicity surrounding it, the company revolutionized its policy, making it much better for dads and moms. The change made the company better and stronger, which will open the doors for other companies to follow suit.
Virtually all dads who live with our kids care for them in every major category several days a week or every day, and that includes feeding them. American families have achieved far more egalitarianism than almost anyone realizes. Dads and moms are putting in equal hours on behalf of our families.
Josh Levs, a father of three, focuses his new book All In on dispelling myths about today’s dads and moms and explaining the necessity of new policies such as paid family leave. .. Josh is truly a pioneer.
‘There’s federal guidance now that says yes, women should get leave for physical recovery (from child birth). However, any leave that is actually given to take care of the child has to be gender-neutral,”’Levs told MetroFocus
Josh showed how structures and cultures across the world conspire to force men out to work (and to work ridiculously long hours) and mothers to stay at home. This ‘secret reality’ lies behind the dearth of women in senior roles in all sectors.
‘Corporate cultures are top-down. When a top executive actually takes paternity leave, it sends the signal to everyone else in the ranks that it’s OK to do so,’ author Josh Levs says of Mark Zuckerberg’s decision.
Josh Levs argues that to embrace the idea of parental leave is good for society and business.
In the inaugural Provost’s Lecture, Josh Levs explains how lies about dads are everywhere, including in the mainstream media. They hurt women, men, children, and businesses, propagating backward structures that take choices away from families.
Josh Levs, the author of All In, told me that although the survey compared moms and dads who work full-time, that doesn’t mean that they are working the same number of hours. Men are more likely to be putting in extra hours at the office… So an uneven divide of labor at home may be a reflection of sexism in the workplace, not laziness on the parts of dads.
Levs wrote a groundbreaking book. He’s trying to change businesses’ attitudes toward fathers.
Fathers have similar problems, too. Josh Levs, a former CNN correspondent, tells of how his daughter was born five weeks prematurely…
Levs’ team wins debate on feminism and gender equality at the Oxford Student Union!