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> Still only 2% of men take the leave, while 42% of women do [1]. This statistics is simply misleading. It says that 2% of the fathers with children under 3 ye

> Still only 2% of men take the leave, while 42% of women do [1]. This statistics is simply misleading. It says that 2% of the fathers with children under 3 years old are currently on parental leave at any given time. Let's say you split the 14 months of parental leave so that the mother takes 12 months and the father 2 months (which I commonly see). So within the first 36 months of the child's life there is a 2 in 36 chance that the father is currently on paternal leave in any random month. So basically you have to multiply that 2% by 18 to get the total number of fathers who take paternal leave: 36% if they all take the minimum number of months.

woodpanel 6y ago
No, the statistics are pretty clear: The share of all parents who were on p/maternal leave during the 2018 microcensus. They don't claim anything else and are a pretty good approximation: How big a share of p/maternal leave offered do fathers and mothers take. "which I commonly see" is not something that is statistically sound. And neither is just multiplying it. If fathers would on average take 1 month out of 24 offered this wouldn't exactly count as a success for the programme or gender equality.