Am I crazy to think that maternity and paternity leave should be the same? I know some of the big companies have equal maternity and paternity leave (like Netflix and Facebook) but that currently seems like the exception not the rule
This seems like one area in which men are greatly discrimated against in tech. Maybe if it's a cost thing we should shorten maternity leave so we can give dad's more time to bond with their kids?
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In comparison to the false equivalency you made, in the case of a religious self inflicted injury, your short term disability insurance that you pay into as deductions from your paycheck would also be covered. Just as it would also cover just about any other injury you obtain from making a personal choice that lead you to engage in high risk recreational activities that could actually cause more lost time than a woman on “maternity leave.”
The difference in that case is that you won’t be stigmatized in the workplace for your injury, but women are continually stigmatized in the workplace over birthing children. Maternal Wall Bias is a real thing and it starts as soon as you start showing.
Non parents should start moving to companies that offer this and start demanding this. Once companies realize that they'll lose good talent if the do discriminatory leave for parents vs non parents, they'll start to provide non-parental sabbatical leave too.