It's no less fair than me having to pay school taxes when I have no children. Healthy families and adequate children so the population pyramid doesn't implode (more of an issue in other developed countries than North America) is a pressing issue that affects everyone in those societies. We should pay our part of it.
My town exempts people over 55 from some school parcel taxes. That is because there needs to e a supermajority to pass bonds and exempting people who don’t have school age children makes them much easier to pass. There is a balance that needs to be reached here. If you take this to the extreme, I could have no children and work while my neighbor has 7 children and chooses not to work.
Those 55+ year olds don't realize who are paying their pension and medical care.
Re:Female Founder Secrets: Fertility
by onetimeusename on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:34PM
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Is that the same issue? Public schools are a public good but compensation/equity/advancement is a private one with private benefits. This isn't an issue of preventing financial collapse but as OP says a matter of "career prospects". The justification for that reason as a public good seems a lot less obvious to me than for public education.
> "actual equality where we acknowledge that women have different needs and desires".
I can't see any other meaning besides equality of outcomes split across employees by fertility lines regardless of inputs. I think this is unfair. What do you tell someone who did not take X amount of time off when their outcome is equated with someone who did?
Increasing paternity leave for all people doesn't help compensate those who do not have children or don't have this issue. Likewise for subsidizing fertility treatments.