>The article isn't clear about this, but I assume paternity and maternity leaves are treated equally. That's an irrational assumption, given that the whole sta

>The article isn't clear about this, but I assume paternity and maternity leaves are treated equally. That's an irrational assumption, given that the whole stated point of the policy change to 5 months was to retain females at the company. If anything, depriving males of paternity leave, causing them to depart the company would achieve the gender distribution they desire much more quickly. I don't believe anything so nefarious is at play, but it does highlight a weakness of a purely numerical approach to these sorts of problems. That aside, I'm willing to bet a beer at an expensive Palo Alto bar that no, males do not get 5 months paternity leave or anything like it at Google.