Would renaming maternity leave as parental leave help change perceptions?

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I've never posted on this board but something has just got me thinking about the way maternity leave is perceived in the UK.
Surely one way to change this is to rename it as Parental Leave more in line with the Swedish system with a set amount of time for the mother to recover and the rest split between both parents.
Details are not as simple as this but surely while it is still called Maternity it is assumed that it is solely the females responsibility in the thought process of the general public and in particular men and employers, whatever the law actually says.

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My husband took "leave" in a different way which worked so well for us. I had a pretty rough mat leave tbh (which I knew would be my last) as our baby was born in 2020 at the peak of Covid so was pleased in a way to return to work after my year was up.
When I returned to work my husband requested if he could take one day off a week (unpaid, of course) so he could have a weekly Daddy Day with our daughter whilst I was at work. The only thing he couldn't do was breastfeed her - that was sorted as soon as I got home!
This arrangement continued until just before our daughter turned 2 - he had his day off for a full year.
We are by no means wealthy - not by any stretch of the imagination - so had to tighten our belts for that one day he wasn't working, but of course it meant no childcare costs on his day.
His employers were great to afford him that option and he embraced it.
It was absolutely one of the best decisions we ever made as a family. My husband would have jumped at the opportunity to have become a ft SAHD (whereas the choice to be a SAHM would definitely not be one I'd consider!)

We already have parental leave ... most underused leave ever!

As well as us already having parental leave, I think the difficulty with OPs proposal is it's not clear whether any use it or lose it for dads would be additional to current entitlements, rather than being taken from what women are already entitled to.