George M typed:
[women but not men taking maternity/paternity leave]
> The salaries and work load are the same. Why should personal situations
> which are planned, not accidental, produce inequality simply because of
> sex, so to speak.
>
> Equality cuts both ways.
I've thought about this quite a bit. My wife (hospital doc)
was taken five months off for each of our three children
(combining maternity leave and a full year's holiday leave
for each one), while I took off a fortnight's holiday leave
for each one (from 38 to 40 weeks gestation). I have been lucky
each time, although the last one was a bit close as she
was delivered on the final Friday of the two weeks).
Anyway, I have decided that the answer is that men are not
equal in all ways to women and that women bring to the
workplace qualities which men cannot. The price for this
includes maternity leave.
If, as a male employer or a male partner, you do not want these
qualities, then do not employ women or take them on as partners.
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