why would you pay someone for 26-51 weeks for doing nothing

you have a very, very odd definition of “doing nothing”.

On a scale from zero to American society, how much do you hate women and children

In what sense is giving birth helping the company and why would they get payed for it. 

1. Many of these countries have systems where the government pays for it. 

2. Consider, maybe it makes more financial sense to actually take care of your employees instead of having to hire and training someone totally new whenever anyone has a baby.

3. Consider, maybe things can have value even if they don’t directly produce profit. 

The rest of the world has figured this out. Literally the rest of the world. 

Even the horrific, actually woman hating Middle East? Where women are stoned for being raped?

Yes. Saudi Arabia has 10 weeks of paid leave. Iraq has 62 days. Yemen has 60 days.  Iran has 6 months AND 2 weeks paid for fathers!