Tag: gender gap

In Sweden, each additional month of parental leave taken by the father increased the mother’s earnings by 6.7% .

Many things needs to change in order to resolve the gender gap, but the truly equal parental leave policies, and getting fathers to actually take them (encouraged both by the government and the workplace) would remove a major, if not the main, obstacle towards resolving it.

It makes too much sense – which means that our backwards legislature would do exactly the opposite and ignore this issue.

Fighting for paternity leave is the best Mother’s Day gift a dad can give

If I had the resources, financial and otherwise, I would have loved to do the same thing with my employer

when my time comes as the author of this article.

My company’s policy for Americans is – ten days for women, and zero for men, who must use their annual 15 days allocated for both vacation and sick time to help their wife and to bond with the newborn. Unless, of course, you are everyone else in my team, who is not a citizen of a second rate country like me. All my coworkers, except me, get one year of paternity if they wish – because they are Canadians.

For the record, my old, very American, company (aka the Vampire Squid) had four months parental leave for their US employees – without regard for gender or sexual orientation.

Fighting for paternity leave is the best Mother’s Day gift a dad can give