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Japanese men can take up to 52 weeks of paid child care leave after their child is born — more than every country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) except South Korea. But most new dads in Japan are struggling to do so, according to a 2020 survey by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation.
The online survey asked 500 men and 500 women about men's family responsibilities. It found that only 13.4% of men with small children in the country took child care leave, with 31.6% wanting to, but saying they couldn't. For those that did take leave, 47.8% didn't have as many days off as they would have liked.
While the number of men who took leave is low, it's higher than in 2019 when only 7.2% said they could take time off. The most common reason men gave in the 2020 survey for not being able to take leave was that nobody was available to do their work while they were gone.
When it came to women taking child care leave, 64.4% said they were able to do so.

In Japan, fathers aren't encouraged to take time away from the office, according to Machiko Osawa, director of the Research Institute for Women and Careers at Japan Women's University. She said taking leave is likely to reduce a man's chances of getting a promotion because it shows employers that he values his family life.

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日本男性在第三個小孩出生之後最多可以請到 52 週的帶薪育嬰假。這可是比經濟合作暨發展組織（OECD）中的任一國家都還要多。不過根據2020 年調查發現，日本多數的新手爸爸都還在掙扎要不 要這樣做。
根據日本女子大學的女性與職涯研究機構主任大沢真知子，在日本父親並不被鼓勵請假，不去上班。 她說請假可能會降低男性升遷的機會，因為這向雇主表現出他較重視自己的家庭生活。
 
🌏Words & Phrases🌏

• leave休假, 休假期
• struggle奮鬥, 努力, 拼搏
• responsibility責任, 職務

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