Just a smaller comment to a part of yours. Getting maternity/paternity leave of months is peanuts compared to 2 decades of rearing, and I don't think we can use

Just a smaller comment to a part of yours. Getting maternity/paternity leave of months is peanuts compared to 2 decades of rearing, and I don't think we can use that as "proof". Parenting is hard and we absolutely should be incentivizing it way more, not with leave, but with more financial subsidies and rewards.