Paid Maternity Leave

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Julia said:
I seriously don't know. I know women have been at a disadvantage to gain employment anyway. I also know it is illegal to ask a female interviewee if she is planning on having children (at least in aspects of my profession) I've never encountered any sort of benefit like it in my life. I don't understand how companies can pay for that sort of thing (or for continuing education for that matter), but I've mostly worked for struggling businesses and schools for a pittance. I would personally prefer it if it was profitable and beneficial for everyone. That would be fantastic, but I don't have an explanation for how it works.
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Well in theory, it would make a lot of sense not to hire women of childbearing age to avoid shelling out paid maternity leave but like you said, seems like there are already controls in place to avoid that.

I'd have to look into employment rates of women ages 20 to mid thirty to see if companies might be getting around that. Here in the States, they might have a hard time hiring qualified employees, then.. Seeing as how women outnumber men on college campuses. I don't have the most recent actual statistic to cite here, though. But my Statistics professor did mention that to us this semester.

Anyway,

I've never worked for a company with 10 months paid maternity leave. The most I've encountered is like, 3 or 4 months maybe. I speculate that companies who can afford to pay out that much maternity leave must be extremely successful.




Marc said:
I live in Finland which is basically a socialist country, really. We have universal healthcare, free university education, paid maternity AND paternity leaves, the government pays the rents of really poor people (as long as they live in cheap apartments) etc. Yet our economy hasn't crumbled, there has been no massive bloodshed on streets, and in my city there are like 7 homeless people, even though I suspect they actually have homes: they are just old junkies who like to hang around the streets.

I'm just trying to say that government making people help those in need of help isn't as radical and detrimental a thing as many people think it is.
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How I admire Finland.. (sigh...)
 
by which it adversely affects the interdependency of other lifeforms
 
What we need is to colonise an uninhabited planet with no native life-forms. Then try and run the highly educated poplulation into the trillions, so that technological advancement can really get underway.
 
a planet without lifeforms won't support large lifeforms like us.

We require billions of microscopic lifeforms for the larger ones, and then more again for the larger and so on until us.

Have you not ever studied terraforming?
 
Algae in the water for sustainable 02. Plankton for the fish. Fish for Omega 3 :) . Oh, throw in some prawns, oysters and lobsters.

On land: all manner of grains and vegetables for feeding us and the cows and chickens.

Terraforming a new planet shouldn't be about trying make another earth with a complex ecosystem - but about trying to push ourselves forward as a species. That way we will only be worried about building and not worried about what might be destroyed/buried in the process.
 
Large life forms can only survive with a complex ecosystem to sustain itself without our assistance. Otherwise we have to spend our time maintaining it ourselves.

Do you have any idea how many symbiotic and parasitic lifeforms are within our own bodies?

Each creature you put into the environment has to evolve for the environment, or have everything it requires to survive there in abundance. What they need to survive needs to be there too. You need population catchers as well.
 
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The U.S. ought to quit being so backward and give paid maternity leave and even a little paternity leave.

I don't think overpopulation will be an issue. People are/will have less children.
 
I think before they start offering maternity/paternity leave in the US they should improve sex education and make birth control options more widely available. People would stop having so many children, economy would improve, and the ability for a company to provide leave to workers would be decreased and less of a problem. As it stands now, our economy would be far worse if leave was mandated. Sad but true.
 
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