We think we're enlightened, but men and women still revert to traditional roles when making use of workplace leave policies.
So, we've come a long way, but not far enough. Women are still supposed to be
nurturers and men are still supposed to be breadwinners.... So employers offer all these great policies that are supposed to support families, and then corporate America thinks it has done all it can do. But men don't actually utilize the benefits. And women do; more like, women are stuck utilizing the benefits. So then women get dinged, and men don't. And so the cycle continues - women make less, so then it makes more sense for them to step away from the workforce.
Argh!! It's a giant hamster wheel, gentlemen - jump the heck off it once in a while! Help out the ladies, won't you? Take your full paternity leave, for heaven's sake!
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