Full pay for nearly five months. I want to cry.https://twitter.com/othersociology/status/870244664774979584 …
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Replying to @JNRutherford
Why industry is far ahead - they already see a "business case" for retention & productivity linked to parental leave. Value carers at work!
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Replying to @OtherSociology
So true. My public university offers TWO WEEKS paid parental leave. You have to plunder your sick time for the rest.
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Replying to @JNRutherford @OtherSociology
Ugh. This is one of the reasons why we left the US to come back home to Europe.
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Well, in Germany rules are much better but get widely undermined by increasing proportions of shortterm contracts where the rules dont apply
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Really? In the UK, you get full maternity / paternity rights after 6 months in the job, even on a short term contract.
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There's a wide gap between policy & practice esp in academia. Maternity leave & short term contracts are barriers to women's careers in UK
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This is why national gender equity program Athena SWAN explictly works on both: data show that women's promotion & retention suffers.
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