Woman holding baby while workingWithout a one-size-fits-all approach to paid parental leave, we'releft with individual policies that are too complicated.

When San Francisco passed a new ordinance guaranteeing up to sixweeks of full-time paid parental leave for workers at companieswith more than 20 employees, you'd be forgiven for expecting to seea marked increase in leave-takers.

But that wasn't the case, according to a study funded by the Robert WoodJohnson Foundation, which highlights a nationwide need for simpler,more universal policies, according to its lead author Julia M.Goodman, assistant professor at Oregon Health and ScienceUniversity and Portland State University School of PublicHealth.

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Raychel Lean

Raychel Lean is ALM's Florida bureau chief, overseeing the Daily Business Review. Email her at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter via @raychellean.

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