Yep, recruiting someone demanding equal pay for 17% less work is always a winning formula!
In some of the agencies I've worked for, you wouldn't believe some of the "talented" women I've seen employed the name of diversity! Can you say... "High-paid welfare"!?
I KNEW you could! (Mister Roger's impersonation)
I’m also a Fed (30 years) and I’m not in favor of this.
When I had my little ones, I had to use accrued leave, or
pay back “borrowed/advanced” leave. We didn’t even have leave donor back then.
But truthfully, we have a great many males retiring with well over 1000 (some over 3000) hours of sick leave which adds on to their years of service to increase their retirement annuity (not under the new retirement system. I don’t think I’ve EVER seen a female retire with that much because she had to use sick leave for childbirth and caring for sick children and elderly parents.
So in that sense, it would help level things out between the sexes.
We’ve had a couple of men request paternity leave, but not much. Truthfully, I think most men don’t much want to be around the house with a newborn. My husband didn’t.