Chairwoman of UK's biggest developer advocates mothers should have 6 year break

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2014-02-11 01:18

Article here. Excerpt:

'The only FTSE 100 woman chairman has urged employers to allow women to take up to six years off to focus on raising their families. She says retaining the best staff is cheaper than training new recruits.

“Employers have to learn to accommodate you through the mid-life piece,” Dame Alison Carnwath, the chairwoman of the Land Securities property group said in an interview with the Financial Times.

“If you want to spend, say, six years having children and getting them off to school before you come back and do full-time work, [companies] have to look upon it as not wanting to lose somebody.”'

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If you leave a job for 6 years for whatever reason, you're probably not that important enough to your employer to take back. An employee who can be out for 6 yrs. w/out whose absence endangers the company is by this fact shown to be not so important. I know of few cases where anyone's THAT important to an employer.

And notice she's all abt women having this option. Umm, would men wanting to be stay-at-home dads get it, too? As for gender stereotyping, such suggestions only reinforce them, not diminish them. The more women-as-primary-child-caregiver benefits and special concessions employers/the law create, the more this stereotype is upheld. Feminists seem to be the no. 1 cause of their own failures to see their "enlightened egalitarian society" dream fulfilled.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2014-02-11 16:39