双语新闻：瑞典爸爸们也休产假 最多带薪休假480天!.pdfVIP

智 课 网 雅 思 备 考 资 料 双语新闻：瑞典爸爸们也休产假 最多带薪休假480天！ 羡慕嫉妒恨！瑞典不仅仅是一个适合女人居住的国家，看起来它也 是新爸爸们的乐土。瑞典几乎90%的爸爸们都休产假，给第一个孩子的 带薪产假可以长达480天！ 双语新闻：瑞典爸爸们也休产假 最多带薪休假480天！ ALONG with its Nordic neighbours, Sweden features near the top of most gender-equality rankings. The World Economic Forum rates it as having one of the narrowest gender gaps in the world. But Sweden is not only a good place to be a woman: it also appears to be an idyll for new dads. Close to 90% of Swedish fathers take paternity leave. Last year some 340,000 dads took a total of 12m days leave, equivalent to about seven weeks each. Women take even more leave days to spend time with their children, but the gap is shrinking. Why do Swedish dads take so much time off work to raise their children? 跟它的北欧邻国们一样，瑞典在性别平等榜单上名列前茅。世界经 济论坛将它评为世界上性别差异最小的国家之一。然而瑞典不仅仅是一 个适合女人居住的国家，看起来它也是新爸爸们的乐土。几乎90%的瑞 典爸爸们休产假。去年大概34万父亲一共休掉了120万个假日，相当于 每人休假七周。女性甚至休更多假来陪伴孩子，但是男女差距正在缩小 。为什么瑞典男人从工作中抽出这么多时间来养育孩子呢？ Forty years ago Sweden became the first country in the world to introduce a gender-neutral paid parental-leave allowance. Benefits comprised 90% of wages for 180 days per child, and parents were free to divvy up the days between them in whatever way they pleased. But the policy was hardly a hit with dads: in the schemes first year men took only 0.5% of all paid parental leave。 四十年前，瑞典成为世界上第一个实施中性带薪产假津贴的国家。 其福利包括每次生产后 ，父母都享受90%工资的180天产假，并且父母 双方能自由随心地分配天数。但是这个政策几乎没对爸爸们产生任何影 响 ：在体制的第一年，男人们只休了0.5%的带薪产假。 在线预约免费听课机会 ，试听名师说阅读 获得雅思阅读免费试听 Today they take a quarter of it. One reason is that the scheme has become more generous, with the number of paid leave days for the first child being bumped up from 180 to 480. But it has also been tweaked to encourage a more equal sharing of the allowance. In 1995 the first so-called daddy month was introduced. Under this reform, families in which each parent took at least one month of leave received an additional month to add to their t