Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take two months of paternity leave this year
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the head of one of the world’s most valuable and influential corporations, says he plans on taking two months of paternity leave when his second daughter is born. In a post published to his public Facebook account today, Zuckerberg explained that he took the same amount of time when his first daughter, Max, was born in 2015. “I will always be grateful I could spend so much time with her in the first months of her life,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Our new daughter is coming soon, and I'm planning to take two months of paternity leave again.”
More intimate details about a chief executive’s personal life don’t normally warrant such special attention. However, parental leave remains a controversial concept in American...