article_snippet.sent: : Sweden grants a total of 480 calendar days of parental leave, with 390 of them paid at 80% of income, with a maximum of 3,160 euros a month or $3,474.
article_snippet.sent: The remaining 90 days are paid at a flat-rate benefit of 20 euros a day, or $22.
article_snippet.sent: Fathers have to share that leave with mothers.
article_snippet.sent: So to promote both parents to raise both parents children, Sweden has mandated that 60 of the 480 days be "daddy months" or "partner months.
article_snippet.sent: If the 60 daddy days aren't used, the 60 daddy days are lost, reducing the maximum leave to 420 days.
article_snippet.sent: Sweden also created a "gender equality bonus": the more days that parents share the leave equally, parents get a bonus that could total up to 1,500 euros, or $1,649.
article_snippet.sent: In reality, only 12% of Swedish couples equally share the 480 days of leave, Bavman said, with women continuing to lead the way as the stay-at-home parent and men as the careerist.
highlights_snippet.sent: Sweden's policies encourage fathers to take just as much leave as mothers .