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Make leave mandatory even for people who don't have children, or you're selecting for childless people of either gender. Sometime between 20 and 40 you have to
by adrianN 5y ago
Make leave mandatory even for people who don't have children, or you're selecting for childless people of either gender. Sometime between 20 and 40 you have to take half a year off.
- dzhiurgis 5y agoTaking time off to grow newborn is not same as taking time off in Bali
- lorenzhs 5y agoNah, the idea is not that it's the leave that sets any single woman's career back, it's that the expectation of the leave being taken by women causes them to not be hired/promoted/... before having children that the OP is concerned with if I understood them correctly. If suddenly all parents were to take leave, regardless of gender, then discriminating young people by gender would no longer make economical sense. There should definitely also be mandated minimum vacation days in my opinion (where I live, four weeks of paid leave per year are the legal minimum for full-time jobs), but that's quite unrelated to the issue at hand.