To think that people arguing against equal parental leave rights want discrimination against women?

[MinesAPintOfTea]

This is all over the news today, and listening to the "balanced" debate on Jeremy Vine over lunch I was getting very annoyed. The argument against seemed to be that men should be going out to earn money and are useless with babies.

And worse the argument that it will be bad for small businesses. If those small businesses aren't already discriminating against women (even if they do so discretely) then it would have no impact on average against the group. In fact the flexibility element might even help them out more.

And breathe...

According to the BBC: Employers can dictate how you can split your maternity cover with your partner and if you take 6 months or less from your maternity leave you are entitled to your old job back

Not on any BBC site I found

We considered it as a couple. I was going to go back after 6mths and DP take 3mths.
I earn more than DP and after my enhanced mat pay was over it would financially be better that way round.
But when it came down to it I didn't want to leave DS. He bf a lot, didn't eat much and I couldn't face leaving him. We made our money stretch as much as poss and I took the full 12mths off instead.