Table 6.
Experience with employee taking parental leave, by geography and gender of leave-taker (N = 1301).
| Female employee, weighted % |
Male employee, weighted % |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF (N = 46) | Non-SF (N = 50) | Cluster p-value | SF (N = 35) | Non-SF (N = 53) | Cluster p-value | |
| Which of the following types of leave did they take to care for their new child?2 | ||||||
| Sick leave | 41.6% | 34.7% | 18.5% | 22.5% | ||
| Vacation/personal time | 57.0% | 49.8% | 38.9% | 49.2% | ||
| Maternity/disability leave | 84.9% | 70.7% | + | – | – | |
| Maternity/paternity/bonding leave (including PFL) | 72.8% | 53.8% | + | 68.1% | 71.1% | |
| During the leave, did the employee receive any pay from the company? | ||||||
| Yes, full pay from the company for the entire leave | 10.5% | 7.9% | 38.4% | 25.7% | ||
| Yes, partial pay from the company | 68.0% | 40.0% | * | 41.3% | 25.6% | |
| No pay from the company | 19.3% | 40.7% | 14.1% | 44.2% | ||
| Unsure | 2.1% | 11.4% | + | 6.2% | 4.5% | |
| Was the paid leave coordinated with the state's PFL program? | ||||||
| No | 10.5% | 14.7% | 34.8% | 23.7% | ||
| Yes | 89.5% | 85.3% | 65.2% | 76.3% | ||
| Total duration of leave taken (weeks) | ||||||
| <6 | 0.0% | 7.0% | 46.0% | 43.9% | ||
| 6 | 0.0% | 3.2% | 15.6% | 24.1% | ||
| 7-11 | 4.5% | 7.1% | 6.7% | 5.4% | ||
| 12-15 | 22.0% | 25.3% | 12.9% | 11.9% | ||
| 16-23 | 23.9% | 30.6% | 0.0% | 1.1% | ||
| 24+ | 36.2% | 13.3% | + | 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| Unable to estimate | 13.4% | 13.6% | 18.9% | 13.5% | ||
| Percent of weeks taken that were fully paid | ||||||
| 0 | 6.5% | 15.4% | 0.0% | 28.0% | ||
| 1–25% | 17.3% | 21.0% | 5.7% | 4.2% | ||
| >25% & <100% | 30.8% | 6.7% | * | 11.3% | 12.1% | |
| 100% | 20.4% | 25.9% | 72.8% | 47.1% | + | |
| Unable to estimate | 25.0% | 31.1% | 10.2% | 8.5% | ||
| How was the work covered while employee was on leave?3 | ||||||
| Temporarily assign the work to other employees | 74.3% | 67.3% | 66.5% | 85.7% | + | |
| Hire an outside temporary replacement | 13.6% | 22.1% | * | 2.9% | 9.4% | |
| Hire a permanent replacement | 0.0% | 9.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||
| Put the work on hold until they returned from leave | 4.9% | 7.0% | 9.6% | 11.5% | ||
| Have the employee perform some work while on leave | 0.0% | 8.8% | 5.7% | 4.1% | ||
| How difficult was it for your company to arrange this coverage? | ||||||
| Not difficult at all | 14.3% | 14.8% | 9.6% | 22.3% | + | |
| A little difficult | 24.0% | 23.3% | 27.6% | 21.5% | ||
| Somewhat difficult | 31.6% | 29.6% | 32.3% | 31.5% | ||
| Difficult | 11.1% | 9.2% | 1.9% | 9.4% | ||
| Very difficult | 0.0% | 3.1% | 3.8% | 4.0% | ||
| Missing | 19.1% | 20.0% | 24.8% | 11.3% | + | |
| How difficult was it for your company to cover the costs associated with paid leave? | ||||||
| Not difficult at all | 56.2% | 43.1% | 39.1% | 50.9% | ||
| A little difficult | 14.7% | 30.9% | 15.6% | 15.5% | ||
| Somewhat difficult | 19.4% | 7.5% | 20.6% | 9.9% | ||
| Difficult | 5.5% | 9.2% | 0.0% | 6.5% | ||
| Very difficult | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.9% | ||
| Missing | 4.2% | 9.2% | 24.8% | 14.3% | + | |
+p<0.1; *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001.
Source: Bay Area Parental Leave Survey of 2018 Employers.
Note. SF=San Francisco; PFL=Paid Family Leave. 154 firms reported both male and female employees' leave-taking. 2Respondents reported all forms of leave taken. 3Respondents reported all ways the work was covered while employee was on leave. P-values from weighted logit models using wild cluster bootstrapping to account for county-level clustering.