Does Paternity Leave Hurt Women? - researchers say that offering paid paternity leave might actually serve to advance men more than women

ed_sparrow · 2012-03-01T10:48:43+00:00

The crux of the article is basically that the male academics they studied would do work-related tasks while at home - "such as research and publishing papers" - and the women didn't.

So, much like the wage gap, it's an issue of women's versus men's choices, rather than any kind of external oppression. And yet, once again, it's presented as "(subject) hurts women". Why do men feel the need to continue working even when on leave? What stops women from doing the same?

Only, that would involve actually questioning women's choices, or acknowledging the social pressures men experience, either of which is apparently verboten. Honestly, it's the half-assed nature of this shit that really gets me.

yer_muther · 2012-03-01T13:18:12+00:00

I'd love to see some equality. Guess how much paid time I got off with my daughter. 0, nada, nothing, zip, zilch. Men are second class citizens in a world that claims to be a patriarchy.

2012-03-01T13:42:35+00:00

Of course, the validity of our study conclusions is limited by the fact that performance of childcare is measured by self-report. It would be useful if future studies validated the current results by measuring time on tasks by other commonly used measures such as outside observation or random sampling of tasks done in a day via the use of beepers.

Some would argue that because of societal expectations or social desirability, women believe that they should report enjoying childcare more than they actually do. To report otherwise might make them feel like bad mothers (Haas, 1992; Wilson, 2002).

borderlinebadger · 2012-03-01T09:44:29+00:00

Of course it doesn't. My work offers 26 weeks at full pay to mothers and 2 weeks to fathers. Equality bring it on.

2012-03-01T08:50:21+00:00

Sonnovabitch, no the cat it out of the bag that Men may benefit from something more than Woman it'll never make it past legislators.

AnnArchist · 2012-03-09T04:01:02+00:00

wow. thats fucking hilariously sad.

Title	Does Paternity Leave Hurt Women? - researchers say that offering paid paternity leave might actually serve to advance men more than women
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Date	March 1, 2012 7:22 AM UTC (14 years ago)
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