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Opinion: Shared Parental Leave? Why Bother?

Nick Clegg’s announcement today may be overshadowed by various rows in the media, but this is an historic moment. Parents will soon be able to share 50 weeks of the 52 weeks maternity leave entitlement, and everyone will have the right to request flexible working.

Why does this matter?

Because we are wasting the talent of our women workers to such an extent that when women start a family they often take a drop in their pay, lose the opportunity for promotion or even can find themselves locked out of the labour market. About one million women are missing from the …

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  • User Avatarbcrombie 18th Jun - 4:21am
    Matthew Fair point
  • User AvatarDavid 18th Jun - 2:47am
    Universality of benefits is a political strategy, not an economic one and certainly not one about moral principal. The idea is that if you can...
  • User AvatarJeremy Davis 18th Jun - 12:46am
    All benefits should be taxed, some are and some aren't. Unless all means tested benefits are restricted to one level, with the inevitable cliff-edge, the...
  • User AvatarDavid Allen 18th Jun - 12:31am
    Matthew, I think you are offering an alternative strategy for May - June 2010. You are arguing that we should then have said something like:...
  • User AvatarMatthew Huntbach 17th Jun - 11:54pm
    Simon Hebditch I think this campaign illustrates a problem that I have written about before. The so-called “differentiation” strategy won’t work. As far as the...
  • User AvatarStephen Donnelly 17th Jun - 11:54pm
    The depressing thing about this list is that the criteria for selection seems to be membership of the political - media establishment . The present...
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