Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer is back in the news following news that Yahoo has changed its parental leave policy, moving it to be more in line with that of Google and Facebook. New mothers will receive 16 weeks of paid leave, double what they formerly were eligible for. New fathers and adoptive, surrogacy, or foster care mothers will get eight weeks off.

Yahoo is also adding other benefits, like $500 to spend on child care and food when baby comes home. Yahoo also announced that for every fiver years with the company, employees will get an eight week, unpaid sabbatical.

These are pretty aggressive efforts to counter the benefits offered by Google: the stratospheric 18 to 22 weeks off for new mothers, and Facebook’s four months off to new fathers and mothers.

Of course, this brings into high relief just how bad things are for the average new parent in the US. We haven’t updated the Family and Medical Leave Act in 20 years, and we offer the least time off for childbirth and other family illness of any developed country. Canadian mothers, for example, get 50 weeks of paid leave, and Scandinavian countries are even more generous.