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Edited by HM Rob:
8/26/2014 5:40:31 AM
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Why men should have an equivalent amount of paternal leave
The amount of "parental leave" due to pregnancy is very much a fiscal issue. When a woman is on paid maternity leave, she is effectively being paid for doing absolutely nothing work-related. This means that everyone else at her place of work has to pick up her slack during the mother's time off.
Unless a woman chooses to not have a child (or cannot have a child) in her lifetime, this privilege is awarded to every woman who is pregnant. So even if a woman has to pick up the slack for another woman who is pregnant, it will even out for the currently working woman once she has a child. Unfortunately, nothing evens out for men.
Collectively, women have to work less hard than men to receive the same wages. Maybe this plays into the alleged income gap?
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11 RepliesAre you kidding me?! In the U.S the wage gap between women and men is .71 cents per every dollar a man makes. Children are the future, women aren't being "paid to do nothing". They are literally birthing the work force of the future that will replace us once we reach retirement age just as we are replacing the baby boomers. The last thing we want to do is end up with a negative population ration like japan and the rest of the industrialized world. Without a continuation of workforce numbers the economy will slow as the population ages, eventually it may even stop and the civilization that had existed will die. On the note of pregnancy itself it is an arduous process and can put significant strain on a woman's body. It isn't 9 months of kicking back and playing -blam!-ing xbox. It is 9 months of watching what you eat, what medicines you take, focusing on your health and the baby. Not to mention the bloating, heart burn, acid reflux, urinary leakage, vomiting and nausea. That doesn't even cover birth. I am 100% on board for fathers having paternity leave to stay at home with newborn babes. What I'm not on board with is this ignorant bitching over something you don't even seem to understand. [spoiler]the US actually has the least amount of maturity leave for new parents in the entire industrialized world.[/spoiler]
