“Senate President Karen Spilka, who joined PFML supporters Thursday, said she couldn’t get paid leave as a state employee after she gave birth to her children in the 1980s.

‘I vowed if I was ever in the position to change that, I would,’ the Ashland Democrat said.”

https://www.masslive.com/politics/2021/07/massachusetts-workers-can-now-take-up-to-12-weeks-of-paid-family-leave-to-care-for-ill-relative.html