Your habit of "you haven't read", "you put words in my mouth" without substantiating either of them is pretty annoying. If you perpetuate, support, or defend a

Your habit of "you haven't read", "you put words in my mouth" without substantiating either of them is pretty annoying. If you perpetuate, support, or defend a system that knowingly creates an unequal outcome depending on the persons sex, you're a sexist. This isn't something that's undetermined, it's a fact. We know that if there's only leave for the mother, the mother is disadvantaged in the work place. To take it really slow: * Two people get a child, mother and father. * The mother needs a couple of weeks after child birth to recuperate. * The mother can take additional leave beyond that, the father can't take any leave at all. * Whoops! Who's gonna work and who's gonna take care of the child now?! This is a sexist system since it blatantly throws the responsibility of child-rearing on to the mother. Not granting fathers parental leave REQUIRES mothers to do it. And the only way this is accepted and seen as a default is because of traditional, sexist, gender roles where the mother is assumed to do the child-rearing. The whole "it's more administration!" argument is just so pathetic that I won't bother commenting on it any more. Not even the most right-wing nut here in Sweden would try to argue that the administrative overhead is a significant problem. You also just skipped the actual point in my last paragraph - the question about proportionality.