Four years ago, when I was about to graduate from college, I was looking for a job in China. Each interview will face the inquiry about the marriage plan. Only when you shoot your breasts to ensure that there is no plan to give birth within three years, can you get the interviewer with a doubtful smile that the letter will be suspicious.meaning.However, male classmates of the same major rarely need to pass this level.
From a corporate perspective, if women want to rest in maternity leave, they will increase employment costs. Ask as if they are reasonable.However, for female job seekers like me, they have not been considered in the stage of childbearing, but because they may have to rest in maternity leave, they are strictly guarded in the job search market, as if carrying the original crime.
In this way, maternity leave is not necessarily a good thing.Otherwise, why did Zhu Liyu propose in 2021 and extended the mother's maternity leave to three years in 2021, but caused scolding?Many people point out that this will exacerbate the gender discrimination in the workplace.In recent years, the voices of mainstream have gradually become "extended and forced the execution of male accompanying maternity leave" and "maternity leave sharing with family men and women". Although it has not yet been implemented in China, it is enough to reflect the public's views on maternity leave.
Singapore takes this step first, Prime Minister Huang Xuncai on August 21 at National Day Congress It was announced that the increase in men's maternity leave for two weeks and the first sharing leave; the fertility rate is related to the fertility rate.
The original intention of maternity leave is to allow mothers to restore their bodies and accompany their children after production. However, if they are blindly extended in measure, they actually bind women and parenting responsibilities to further compress women's workplace space, which is not conducive to their return to the workplace.Only by encouraging parents to assume the responsibility of parenting in the maternity leave system can we truly break the division of labor of traditional families from the structure and promote the equality of men and women in their families and workplace.In 1974, Sweden, which was shared with salary and maternity leave, even specially set up funds. The closer the parents were on vacation, the more bonuses they received.
Besides, taking care of infants and young children is not easy.I often hear colleagues complaining that taking care of children on weekends seems to be working in another job, which is harder than going to work.Maternual leave allows newborn parents to temporarily leave social labor, but it is necessary to immediately invest in family labor. It should be noted that taking care of the service of infants and young children is also a lot of expenses in the labor market.The "2023 Global Father Report" released by the international organization, which promotes the responsibility of father -in -child nursery, pointed out that the proportion of men's and women's unpaid working hours is 19%and 55%, respectively, and the gap is different.Pay too much time in unpaid work, which will also weaken the energy of women's investment in social labor.
"Endemuating leave" is not easy to leave, and it is definitely not easy.Therefore, maternity leave settings are not allocating benefits, but dividing family responsibilities.Let men join the ranks of maternity leave and do not be a competitors who are still obsessed with work when their wives are still obsessed with work. Instead, collaborators who can build a family can not only create a "family" social atmosphere, but also change the traditional "male maleThe concept of division of labor in the main outside and the female lead, breaking the stereotype of gender.
More importantly, when maternity leave is no longer exclusive to women, it actually helps women to loosen the value of fertility, eliminate the tool attributes brought by social characters, and make men liberate from their own gender roles.If the gender division of labor becomes a handcuffs that are over the pursuit of personal pursuits, the value of human beings will be brutally placed under the tool attributes.With the courage to break free of traditional social roles, you can avoid being "alienated" by society to become a tool and pursue what you love.
After all, there are less people who are pretending to be in the sleeve, and now this generation will have more happiness and freedom. Otherwise, how can we talk about the next generation of happiness?
