President Obama has called for paid family leave and greater flexibility to improve conditions for working parents. Obama repeated the call at a White House summit on Monday after initial remarks in his weekly address on Saturday.

President Obama: “Many jobs don’t offer adequate leave to care for a new baby or an ailing parent, so workers can’t afford to be there when their family needs them the most. That’s wrong, and it puts us way behind the times. Only three countries in the world report that they don’t offer paid maternity leave. Three. And the United States is one of them. It’s time to change that.”