In article <[log in to unmask]>, Iain L M Hotchkies
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>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).
BUT it is different when it is a partnership, and any effect is so much
greater on the other partners than when it is a large NHS trust.
>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.
Agreed.
> The price for this
>includes maternity leave.
NO!
Men have important qualities for general practice too.
>
>If, as a male employer or a male partner,
these two situations are very different
> you do not want these
>qualities, then do not employ women or take them on as partners.
you said it ;-)
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Katie
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