The United States and Papua New Guinea share an odd distinction: they are the only two countries in the world that do not guarantee paid maternity leave. Host Tracie Morrissey, presenting this episode of Broadly's Ovary Action series, sets out to compare how that gap plays out for working mothers on opposite ends of the wealth scale. In the US, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 offers 12 weeks of unpaid leave, but only to employees at companies with 50 or more workers, roughly 60 percent of the workforce, leaving many women to choose between a paycheck and time with a newborn. Morrissey travels to Sweden, where parents are entitled to 480 days of paid leave, to see what a fully supported system looks like, then to Papua New Guinea, where the absence of any mandate hits women with far fewer resources than their American counterparts. A brief mention of Obama's 2015 memorandum extending six weeks of paid leave to federal employees marks the closest thing to US progress the film can point to.