maternity leave will give a greater window for women to provide adequate time during this very important period in their lives and return to work and focus on their careersprogressive companies have already implemented a maternity leave policy of offering 2426 week entitlement to its women employees some have gone further ahead and offered the same quantum of paternity leave as well jayanthi vaidyanathan director human resources at paypal said this is indeed a historic move that will encourage more women to continue in the workforce and have fulfilling careers industry reports suggest that 41 of women in technology companies tend to leave midcareer most notably around childbearing years with the bill passed now we can begin providing women the motivation to reverse this trend the law is expected to improve gender diversity at the workplace lohit bhatia business head staffing solutions at ikya human capital solutions said while women form nearly 50 of the population their participation in formal employment is a mere 10 or less than that further as the hierarchy rises their representation drops significantly at senior levels and board levels they form only 1 owing to the challenges a woman faces during and post maternity with this bill many of the challenges faced by women can be addressed in fact it can help in bringing down the dropout ratio from a corporate perspective while industry and private sectors may have to initially provision for these amendments and thus may incur additional expenses the longterm positive impact is that it will lead to more proactive thinking at organisations reduction in conflicts and a more engaged and empowered women workforce in fact the roi return on investment of this amendment will be far higher making organisations not to fret on the initial expenses that they may incur said bhatia