--- title: Fatherhood Now: Is Josh Levs the New Sheryl Sandberg? description: Josh Levs' book is a call to arms for working dads canonical: https://time.com/3858155/all-in-is-lean-in-for-dads/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-14T19:07:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:01.871Z og:title: Josh Levs' 'All In' is Like 'Lean In' For Dads og:description: It's a call to arms for working fathers to demand more workplace flexibility og:url: https://time.com/3858155/all-in-is-lean-in-for-dads/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc329892397fc5b75/6987efc9428a9e25d2ccb6c5/cover_all-in-by-josh-levs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1800 og:image:height: 1013 og:image:alt: COVER_All In by Josh Levs og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Josh Levs' 'All In' is Like 'Lean In' For Dads twitter:description: It's a call to arms for working fathers to demand more workplace flexibility twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc329892397fc5b75/6987efc9428a9e25d2ccb6c5/cover_all-in-by-josh-levs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _All In_ is _Lean In_ for Dads > Sponsored content. 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Levs says he consulted with Sandberg while he was writing the book. Josh Levs is a CNN reporter who made headlines in 2013 when he filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Time Warner because he said their paid leave policy discriminated against biological dads. At the time, Time Warner offered 10 weeks of paid leave to biological mothers, and to parents of both genders who adopted or had a child through surrogacy, but biological fathers only got two weeks. Levs challenged this rule and won, and went on to become an advocate for better workplace policies for dads as well as moms. Levs’ central argument is that American culture—especially American workplace culture—doesn’t allow parents of either gender to spend enough time with their children. There’s been a lot of discussion about how tricky that problem is for women, but few have dug deep into what it means for men. “There’s this basic mentality about what men and women are that has held back our policies,” he says. “Our structure is based on the assumption the woman will stay home and men will work, so why would you need paid maternity leave? The women will stay home! Why would you need paternity leave? They’ll work!” Clearly, that assumptions aren’t true anymore, but Levs argues that workplace policies have not kept up with the changing times. “Our policies didn’t grow up, our policies are stuck in the past,” he says. The book is a “call to action,” Levs says, not only for long-demanded workplace policies like paid maternity leave, but also for widespread paternity leave and greater flexibility for all working parents. He repeatedly notes that the United States is one of the only nations in the world without paid maternity leave, and that many other industrialized nations have paternity leave on top of that. Changing American workplace policies isn’t just a question of accommodating parents, its a question of looking out for children, Levs argues. He says that paid leave shouldn’t be considered a luxury—he says it’s no different from “absolute basics” like public schools or medical care for kids. “Another absolute basic is making sure what when a child leaves the womb, its parents, or one of its parents at least, hopefully both, have time to stay home and not hand the child over to strangers and rush back to work,” he says. “That’s not left or right, that’s not a battle over taxes, its just doing what’s right for kids,” he says. “And whats right for a society’s kids is always best for a society.” Levs isn’t just calling for better workplace policies, he’s also asking men—and women—to re-examine what it means to be a dad. He argues that the antiquated expectations of a worker-bee dad and a stay-at-home mom have left modern fathers feeling shut out at home in the way some mothers feel shut out at work, even as fathers are increasingly aware of the importance of active parenthood. That’s creating an identity crisis for the American dad. “We are carving out a new role for fathers in America,” he says. “That’s a challenge and an opportunity. There are opportunities that men have now that our fathers didn’t have. So that gives us a chance to define a new meaning of manliness.” “We’re all in this together, pushing forward for a new meaning for fatherhood.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3858155/all-in-is-lean-in-for-dads/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3858155/all-in-is-lean-in-for-dads/"},"headline":"All In is Lean In for Dads","datePublished":"2015-05-14T19:07:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:01.871Z","description":"Josh Levs' book is a call to arms for working dads","url":"https://time.com/3858155/all-in-is-lean-in-for-dads/","keywords":["Living","Parenting","Work","Books","Sheryl Sandberg","Lean In","families","work life balance","Parenthood","paid leave"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc329892397fc5b75/6987efc9428a9e25d2ccb6c5/cover_all-in-by-josh-levs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc329892397fc5b75/6987efc9428a9e25d2ccb6c5/cover_all-in-by-josh-levs.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"COVER_All In by Josh Levs","caption":"","creditText":"","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/3858155/all-in-is-lean-in-for-dads/","name":"All In is Lean In for Dads"}}]}] ```