https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/18/16170668/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-paternity-leave-two-months

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the head of one of the world’s most valuable and influential corporations, says he plans on taking two months of paternity leave when his second daughter is born. In a post published to his public Facebook account today, Zuckerberg explained that he took the same amount of time when his first daughter, Max, was born in 2015. “I will always be grateful I could spend so much time with her in the first months of her life,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Our new daughter is coming soon, and I'm planning to take two months of paternity leave again.”

More intimate details about a chief executive’s persona life doesn’t normally warrant such special attention. However, parental leave remains a controversial concept in American workplaces given its lack of legislative support from the US government and the cultural stigma around employees, especially those in executive leadership, taking time off from work. According to a 2017 study from Pew Research, only 14 percent of civilian workers had access to paid family leave, and the first state to establish mandated paid family leave was California in 2004. Standard family leave policies in Canada, Europe, and elsewhere are much more generous.