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Whether or not parental leave affects career prospects depends on cultural and employer attitudes. Even after hearing your experiences in Scandinavia, I still t
by azernik 10y ago
Whether or not parental leave affects career prospects depends on cultural and employer attitudes. Even after hearing your experiences in Scandinavia, I still think career worries are a legitimate concern for taking parental leave in eg the United States.
- lb1lf 10y agoAgreed, which is why I mentioned where I work. However, I do work for a company whose management comes from a culture biased more against taking long leaves - or, at least, that is my impression of the UK by and large - and even UK-based managers seem to approve. I guess once such prolonged leave gains just a little bit of traction, management are likely to be concerned that they'll be seen as being behind the times if they oppose it? Just conjecture and idle musings with nothing to back it up whatsoever.
- alkonaut 10y agoThat's why it's so important to have tax funded (not employer funded) programs that also have allocated days for each parent, quickly making it first acceptable but soon also expected for both parents to take parental leaves. That is - if it's an explicit goal for society to have parents and men in particular take longer parental leaves. My coworkers and managers would probably start wondering wth my values are if I didn't take at least 4 months with each kid. I'd look like some kind of stone age man to then I hope).