--- title: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: Paid Maternity Leave is Good for Business description: It's not just good for women, it's good for business canonical: https://time.com/3637962/youtube-ceo-america-needs-paid-maternity-leave/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-17T22:09:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:29.366Z og:title: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: Paid Maternity Leave is Good for Business og:description: It's not just good for women, it's good for business og:url: https://time.com/3637962/youtube-ceo-america-needs-paid-maternity-leave/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt307af22e73d5133f/69876f8ccd1bba16826f43f4/456940420.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2368 og:image:height: 1332 og:image:alt: Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit - Day 2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: Paid Maternity Leave is Good for Business twitter:description: It's not just good for women, it's good for business twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt307af22e73d5133f/69876f8ccd1bba16826f43f4/456940420.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # YouTube CEO: America Needs Paid Maternity Leave > Sponsored content. 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(Kimberly White--Getty Images for Vanity Fair) Kimberly White—Getty Images for Vanity Fair by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 17, 2014 10:09 PM UTC YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki wrote an op-ed in the [Wall Street _Journal_](http://www.wsj.com/articles/susan-wojcicki-paid-maternity-leave-is-good-for-business-1418773756) Wednesday reminding everyone that paid maternity leave isn’t just good for women, it’s good for business. She cited a 2011 survey from [California’s Center for Economic and Policy Research](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/paid-family-leave-1-2011.pdf) that found that, after California implemented paid leave, [91% ](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/paid-family-leave-1-2011.pdf)of businesses said the policy had either a positive effect on profitability, or no effect at all. Wojcicki, who was the first Google employee to go on maternity leave and now runs YouTube, which is owned by Google, says she’s seen this firsthand: --- > “” --- As Wojcicki notes, paid maternity leave can reduce risk of post-partum depression, keep babies healthy, and encourage mothers to stay in the workplace, yet only 12% of private workers and 5% of low-income workers in the U.S. have access to these benefits. Every other developed nation in the world has government-mandated paid maternity leave, and when the [UN](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/wcms%5F242615.pdf)‘s International Labor Organization surveyed the maternity leave policies of 185 nations, the U.S. was one of two countries that don’t guarantee paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea is the other. She wants America to get cracking on paid maternity leave, stat. \[[WSJ](http://www.wsj.com/articles/susan-wojcicki-paid-maternity-leave-is-good-for-business-1418773756)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3637962/youtube-ceo-america-needs-paid-maternity-leave/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3637962/youtube-ceo-america-needs-paid-maternity-leave/"},"headline":"YouTube CEO: America Needs Paid Maternity Leave","datePublished":"2014-12-17T22:09:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:29.366Z","description":"It's not just good for women, it's good for business","url":"https://time.com/3637962/youtube-ceo-america-needs-paid-maternity-leave/","keywords":["Living","California","Google","motherhood","YouTube","maternity leave","paid leave"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt307af22e73d5133f/69876f8ccd1bba16826f43f4/456940420.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt307af22e73d5133f/69876f8ccd1bba16826f43f4/456940420.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit - Day 2","caption":"Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit - Day 2","creditText":"Kimberly White—Getty Images for Vanity Fair","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3637962/youtube-ceo-america-needs-paid-maternity-leave/","name":"YouTube CEO: America Needs Paid Maternity Leave"}}]}] ```