"It is not just “mild uneasiness” For many countries it has significant career repercussions to prioritize family." Yeah, that is exactly the worry about "fina

"It is not just “mild uneasiness” For many countries it has significant career repercussions to prioritize family." Yeah, that is exactly the worry about "finances" that I mentioned. Why are you hellbent on disagreeing with me? I also get the notion that the repercussions may now be less for women because when you hire men, you will now also risk losing them to parenthood. But parental leave is just a small dent. The bigger impact is that women will tend to work only part time or not at all once they have children. Also, as for the alleged "frowning": doesn't it contradict your theory that fathers actually did take parental leave when they were given time allotted especially for them? Imo it rather confirms my theory, that the reason fathers rarely do it is because it is a female privilege that mothers would have to give up (or would be forced to give up by such new laws). The frowning by society must have still been in place, but the mother privilege was not, because she had no claim on that period of parental leave (it was only for fathers).