--- title: United States Navy: Taking the Lead on Maternity Leave in the U.S. description: Why 'color blind' millennials might be blind to injustice, too. Plus how the Navy is leading on maternity leave, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3858694/united-states-navy-maternity-leave/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-14T16:01:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:58.960Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How the Navy is Taking the Lead on Maternity Leave og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3858694/united-states-navy-maternity-leave/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How the Navy is Taking the Lead on Maternity Leave twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How the Navy is Taking the Lead on Maternity Leave by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 14, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 14, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how the U.S. Navy is leading the way on maternity leave.**](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0513/Is-the-US-Navy-leading-the-way-on-maternity-leave-video) By Alexander LaCasse in the Christian Science Monitor **2\.** [**What if growing up “color-blind” means white millennials don’t see racial injustice either?**](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/white-millennials-products-failed-lesson-colorblindness/) By Mychal Denzel Smith in the PBS Newshour **3\.** [**Jailhouse informants are a leading cause of wrongful convictions. It’s time for them to go.**](https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/06/texas-lawmaker-ban-snitch-testimony-death-penalty-cases/) By Jordan Smith in the Intercept **4\.** [**Spend two minutes per hour walking — just walking — to cut your risk of dying by one third.**](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-little-bit-of-walking-can-add-up-to-improve-your-health/) By Christopher Wanjek and LiveScience at Scientific American **5\.** [**Fruit and vegetables worth billions are left to rot because they’re ugly. Now we can eat them at a discount.**](http://grist.org/food/this-new-startup-wants-to-sell-you-ugly-fruit-and-veggies/) By Lorena Galliot in Grist  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3858694/united-states-navy-maternity-leave/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3858694/united-states-navy-maternity-leave/"},"headline":"How the Navy is Taking the Lead on Maternity Leave","datePublished":"2015-05-14T16:01:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:58.960Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3858694/united-states-navy-maternity-leave/","keywords":["Innovation","women","Millennials","Exercise","Navy","Race","Jail","fruit"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"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":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3858694/united-states-navy-maternity-leave/","name":"How the Navy is Taking the Lead on Maternity Leave"}}]}] ```