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Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by chongli on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:08PM (#11219627)
How do you know when a man in the office becomes a father? If you institute "mandatory paternity leave" then he just won't tell you. It's already illegal to ask about marital status during a job interview. Are you suggesting we change that, too? Then you risk further reducing the number of marriages in society.

The whole problem with paternity leave is that there's a financial disincentive for companies to offer it and there's a financial disincentive for male employees to accept it.

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Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by theinternetman on Friday March 04, 2016 @05:58AM (#11223006)
> How do you know when a man in the office becomes a father?

How do you know when a woman in the office is actually pregnant?

Going to go feel the bump up yourself?

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Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by rosser on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:13PM (#11219660)
How do you know when a man in the office becomes a father?

Well, for one thing, there's the bit where, if the new child will be covered under the father's health plan, he kinda has to tell HR about it. So they can, you know, change the coverage?

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Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by chongli on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:19PM (#11219698)
I live in Canada. We don't need to tell our employers about our families in order to receive health care. We still have a similar gender wage gap though.

Besides, if I did live in the US and the situation came up, I would be more likely to pay for my child's health insurance out of pocket than to take a $40,000 pay cut.

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Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by emidln on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:45PM (#11219908)
You only have to do that when the child of born. Even then, you have quite a bit of leeway as to when you have to notify the insurance company.
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