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.