(Data provided by Childbirth Connection, a program of the National Partnership for Women & Families)

Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, called the announcement “groundbreaking.” She wrote: “The company won’t be party to poverty wages and practices that force workers to choose between job and family. This may well be what a tipping point looks like.”

“Corporate America is beginning to step forward to adopt these policies – in Facebook’s case, by saying the company won’t be party to poverty wages and practices that force workers to choose between job and family,” Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, said in a statement.

Facebook’s plan “goes beyond anything we have seen,” said Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit advocacy group. “This is corporate responsibility in the 21st century at its best.”

In a letter to Postmaster General and CEO Megan Brennan, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the National Partnership for Women & Families called the current requirements “outdated, unfair and potentially illegal.”