From the time my husband and I married seven years ago, people have been talking to me about children. “You think marriage is a big adjustment,” they would say. “Just wait until you have kids – it will change your life.” In my mind, these well-meaning words referred to that lovely phenomenon of beholding a …
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Gillian Lester is the Dean and Lucy G. Moses Professor at Columbia Law School, a position she has held since January 2015, after having served in various capacities at Berkeley Law School, Harvard Law School, UCLA School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and Stanford Law School. She started her career in her native Canada, …
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A scheme for sharing parental leave and pay following the birth or adoption of a child was introduced in England and Wales in April 2015. It allows parents to share between them up to 50 weeks of leave and 37 weeks of statutory pay during the first year of their child’s birth or adoption (subject …