> If anything, companies should be providing more childcare so that more women (as well as some men) will have less of a burden balancing career and caregiving.

> If anything, companies should be providing more childcare so that more women (as well as some men) will have less of a burden balancing career and caregiving. I think this is the crux of the matter; some people think that companies should not be doing this, society as a whole should through the age-old custom of voting. My other comment [1] on this thread elaborates. > It's similar to "I don't take the bus, why should my taxes pay for public transit." The difference is that public transit is a public utility. Anyone can use it if they want to. This is more like your employer offering transit that only parents can use. Everyone else is excluded – people who need to be caregivers for a relative, people who are suffering from depression, people who can't drive, etc. Naturally some of the latter group will think “What's so special about the parents that my employer who is a private company is making special concessions for them even when society isn't?” My solution to this would be basically just that – to open up more flexible schedules in general, and ideally based on what society as a whole wants. Unfortunately, any kind of attempts to make corporations give employees more flexibility by law are a non-starter in the US, which means that US society as a whole doesn't buy into this “We're all in it together” paradigm. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24414141 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24414141