<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">National Commission for Women, NCW, organized the final Law Review Consultation on the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 and the 2017 Amendment to review and analyse the legislation affecting women and recommend amendments to meet any lacunae, inadequacies and shortcomings.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">NCW has also conducted one preliminary consultation and five Regional Level consultations to relook the Act in order to formulate specific recommendations for amendments and enhancing the outreach of the legislation. Through this consultation, the Commission endeavoured to seek views, suggestions and opinions of experts and stakeholders from all over India. Some of the important suggestions made by the experts and stakeholders during the consultation were to extend the paternity leaves so that the burden of raising the child is shared equally between both the parents, incentivize employers and sensitization of the corporate sector to employing more women workers.</span></p>