Re:As women have more equal opportunity, the more their pref...
by pluma on Monday November 05, 2018 @08:00AM
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> With the caveat of: in the work culture here in the US
That's the point, though. The work culture in the US is actively hostile towards employees. Sick days usually seem to count towards your vacation days and expecting mothers and young parents barely get any additional time off.
As a counter-example, some businesses outside the US have "part-time" CEOs, sometimes with two people sharing the position if a full-time position is unavoidable.
This is why I said that "egalitarian" policies make the world a nicer place: a lot of policies necessary to make work culture more egalitarian also improve work culture for everyone else too, like reducing the number of working hours and increasing social welfare (i.e. paid time off for parents, actual paid medical leave instead of "sick days", etc).
Unfortunately this is probably going to be an unpopular thing to say, but I've seen how much work goes into both being a CEO and being a full-time parent up close.
(With the caveat of: in the work culture here in the US...) Running a business that employs a significant number of people and having daily, hands-on parent interaction with your child are mutually exclusive. It doesn't matter if you are a mother or a father.
If you want to change this fact, you'll need to start implementing controls on working hours & days like Germany did. You also have to do that knowing that crunch time is one of the competitive market advantages that the US offers.