jody heymann, welcome to the "newshour". first of all, give us a sense of how much of the developed world already does offer some sort of paid leave for ca employees. >> nearly the entire world. not just high income but low and middle income countries offered paid leave. so 181 countries out of 192 offer paid sick leave, even more, 185 offer paid materty leave. about half as many paid leave for dads. it's overwhelmingly what countries do. >> woodruff: there's still a lot we don't know about what congress is discussing and certainly not what they're going to end up with, but the reporting is that what was in the original proposal, twelve weeks of paid family leave, they're looking at cutting that possibly to four weeks. how much difference would that make? >> going down to four weeks would be a huge loss. i think we just have to think about the circumstances. first, someone getting sick. if someone has cancer, they're not going to be treated and well four weeks later. if someone has a heart attack, being able to return to phy