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yummyfajitas on Jan 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: This is why I don't give you a job

Not quite, because not every woman will vanish from work for 2-3 years.

Such laws make an employer indifferent between a man of quality Q and a woman of quality Q + P(taking leave) x (cost of leave). Whether or not hyper-productivity is required depends strongly on P(taking leave) and the cost of leave.

myko on Jan 7, 2012 [–]

One other thing to note is that a lot of businesses are now granting paternity leave equal or near so to maternity leave.

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