<story><title>Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/15/business/pregnancy-discrimination.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rednerrus</author><text>One of the solutions to this is matching paternity leave.&lt;p&gt;If I gave you the choice of two employees, one of whom would take 12 weeks of paid leave and one who would take 2 weeks of paid leave, which would you choose?&lt;p&gt;If you offered both sexes 12 weeks of paid leave, you wouldn&amp;#x27;t have to make this decision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lovich</author><text>You&amp;#x27;d have to make it mandatory leave. The social pressure is still tilted towards women as care givers and men as providers so more men will end up not using the leave. If it becomes mandatory then it&amp;#x27;s just a baked in rising to every employee, _and_ will probably do better for society to have both parents get time with their children.&lt;p&gt;I believe some European states solve this by having the state cover ~60% of your wage while on leave so that it&amp;#x27;s not a giant burden for companies</text></comment>
<story><title>Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/15/business/pregnancy-discrimination.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rednerrus</author><text>One of the solutions to this is matching paternity leave.&lt;p&gt;If I gave you the choice of two employees, one of whom would take 12 weeks of paid leave and one who would take 2 weeks of paid leave, which would you choose?&lt;p&gt;If you offered both sexes 12 weeks of paid leave, you wouldn&amp;#x27;t have to make this decision.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I agree completely. I think this effect of paternity leave is under appreciated by men and greatly feared by employers.&lt;p&gt;I can understand how an employer gets concerned about an employee being gone for 3 or 4 months and whether or not they admit it selecting&amp;#x2F;biasing against that possibility in hiring rather than just figuring out how to deal with it.</text></comment>