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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on what you want and what your education level is. For a highly educated person, you can probably get more here and negotiate a better salary and work life balance. If you are sort of mediocre in terms of skills, then sweden is probably better. [/quote]

Ha! The best you can get in the US is about 6 months maternity leave. That’s the minimum you get in Sweden. A highly skilled professional is much much better off in Sweden than the US.

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I can make way more here--enough that I can take off a long time from work with and[b] without pay [/b]and still be better off than in Sweden.[/quote]

Good  for you!

However, judging by the much higher female participation rate in the Swedish economy, that’s not what happens for most people. I don’t understand why it’s hard to understand that more women would stay in the workforce if they had access to paid leave.

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It's a different set of values. Many Americans including many American women, especially those who have clawed their way to the top, do not support a higher female participation rate. At least not enough to create policies to drive it. We live in an idiocracy that disregards the hard data that shows the higher the rate of female participation in the labor force, the better the economy.

It's the reason the birth rate has slowed down so much, far below replacement level, and continues to do so.[/quote]

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