Record 16% of male civil service staff took paternity leave in 2019

A record 16.4 percent of male central government workers took child care leave in Japan in fiscal 2019, the minister in charge of civil service reform said Tuesday.The proportion increased by 4 percentage points compared to the previous fiscal year through March 2019, and met the government's target of 13 percent by 2020, Taro Kono said in a press conference."We have to make child care leave for men common in our society," Kono said. He suggested the need to continue encouraging civil servants to take days off to build a society that is more conducive to paternity leave.The government has b…READ FULL ARTICLE