A simple, inoffensive action that grabs attention but doesn’t involve shouting into people’s faces. Love it.
It’s mad that it’s not equal, if mothers and fathers have equal childcare leave there’s no need to discriminate against hiring women full time (which is a thing that still happens, some companies don’t like to take women in their mind 20s full time cos they end up taking maternity, I saw this happen first hand while I was in RBS, that was only 2 jobs/a few years ago)
I live in a country where parental leave doesn’t discriminate between mothers and fathers (or one parent or another if it’s a same sex couple). Parental leave can be up to two years BUT it’s split into 75% for one parent, 25% for the other. I have yet to meet a man who has taken even a fraction of that 25% (aside from the paternal leave right after the baby is born, which is separate and covers a few weeks). This isn’t to say it’s an issue with men, but more an issue of a society that dissuades men from taking more than the bare minimum of parental leave, where women are still expected to take one the main caregiver role for children, and where men generally earn more than women. Until these issues are fixed and men are highly encouraged to take parental leave, just making that time available (even if a necessary first step) won’t be enough.
Edit: got my percentages wrong
It’s a weird position to take, if I was offered parental leave I’d take it all and probably wouldn’t want to come back to work.
Fair enough if you live in a place where people actually like their jobs and want to be there, but that doesn’t seem to be the case for the majority of us.
If they made paternity leave an equivalent length of time - and mandatory - then they could resolve a lot of the discrimination women face in the middle of their career when employers assume they will disappear on mat leave and withhold promotions.
That’s a pretty awesome idea, I’m not going to lie!
Imagine having the luxury of being able to complain that your paternity leave isn’t long enough. Makes me, here in the US, glad I’ve got no intention of having kids.
You absolutely do have the luxury to do that. You just choose not to. Some other issue being “higher priority” doesnt prevent anyone from engaging with smaller issues.
There’s nothing stopping people from doing the same in the US. I don’t really see how you don’t have the luxury to complain.
Hard to complain, when they’re busy kissing the corporate boot
kissing the corporate boot
See that’s where you are going wrong. Who the hell wants their BOOTs kissed.
Learn from generations of Britt’s. Tug your forelocks and get the lords to bend over and spread.
U N I O N I Z E
You’re not the only one who’s glad you’re not having kids.
I thought shared parental leave was a legal minimum? For the uninitiated, that’s where some or all the maternity leave can be given to the paternal parent, meaning there isn’t an inequality.
If they are campaigning for more for both parents, I’m not sure I am on the same page. I can see how this would make me unpopular though.
