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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect that this policy will backfire and cause hard-to-prove discrimination against women in the labor force unless/until men also take parental leave.

Also I wonder how the "caring for a family member" element will play out.  Would someone be able to take 12 weeks of paid leave every year (every x years??) for this purpose?[/quote]

To me the fact employees get to cash out their leave when they retire is discrimination against the maternal parent.  Every year I see male colleagues talking about how many hundreds of hours they saved and will cash out, while female colleagues with children struggle in and out of LWOP status for decades. Because once you have more then one child, if you elect to stay home 12 weeks with each, its almost impossible to every build any substantive amount of leave again and you frequently stay well below a comfortable level.

But, I learned a long time ago no one cares and every one hates federal workers anyway.  I think they hate federal workers who are parents even more.[/quote]

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