When Family-Friendly Policies Backfire(nytimes.com)

7 pointsby wcummingsvor 11 Jahren1 comments

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/upshot/when-family-friendly-policies-backfire.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&abt=0002&abg=1

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dalkevor 11 Jahren

The - for me - key point is at the end.

> Perhaps the most successful way to devise policies that help working families but avoid unintended consequences, people who study the issue say, is to make them gender neutral. In places like Sweden and Quebec, for instance, parental leave policies encourage both men and women to take time off for a new baby.

> “It has to become something that humans do,” Ms. Glynn, from the Center for American Progress, said, “as opposed to something that women do.”

Then again, I live in Sweden. :)