Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
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Re: Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
#2Germany has this and is awesome. 14 months paid leave to distribute among the two parents.
Re: Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
#3Seems a bit bizarre seeing that mothers in most cases will need to spend more time with their babies. After all, there are certain things like breastfeeding that only a mother can do.
Re: Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
#4> Finland says it wants to "promote wellbeing and gender equality"
Finally, a country that understands that one of the driving forces of gender inequality is the asymmetry of experience caused by maternal leave.
Re: Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
#5Another step towards equality pay (so the risk of moms and dads leaving on parental is the same).
This is not obvious, but after you think about it it makes a lot of sense.
Congrats Finland.
Re: Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
#6Germany has this and is awesome. 14 months paid leave to distribute among the two parents.
Doesn't look like the same thing though. Here it's clearly talking about non-transferable time.
Re: Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
#7Seems a bit bizarre seeing that mothers in most cases will need to spend more time with their babies. After all, there are certain things like breastfeeding that only a mother can do.
Hmm, a quick search tells me that roughly half of all babies are breastfed after 6 months in the US. Seems acceptable to cater for potential needs of half the population (assuming numbers are the same obviously).
I was home with my kid when he turned 1 until he was 1.5 using this system in Sweden. Being a guy, I didn't breastfeed him. Kid still appear functional.
Re: Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
#8Germany has this and is awesome. 14 months paid leave to distribute among the two parents.
Doesn't look like the same thing though. Here it's clearly talking about non-transferable time.
Yeah, looks different.
On the other hand, Sweden has something similar.
Dads get 6 month non-trasferable paid leave.
Re: Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
#9Spain is progressively doing this. Starting 2021, men and women will have the paid same parental leave of 16 + 2 weeks (non-transferable).
The main reason is fight against the discrimination from employers who think hiring women is inconvenient because they can go on parental leave for very long.
Re: Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
#10Seems a bit bizarre seeing that mothers in most cases will need to spend more time with their babies. After all, there are certain things like breastfeeding that only a mother can do.
But both genders can feed the baby. It is not a rare situation where a mother doesn't have enough milk to feed a baby without additional food.
What other things are mother-only things in your opinion?