Where are you coming up with these claims? First of all, the article is talking about gender equality and not social safety nets (although the two may be correl

Where are you coming up with these claims? First of all, the article is talking about gender equality and not social safety nets (although the two may be correlated). But more importantly, the countries with more gender equality tend to also have more equal paternity/maternity leave. Look up Norway and Sweden policies, for example.