> the onus falls on the woman to bear the career hit
Yes, women have uteri and lactate while men don't. It really is that simple and societies have compensated for this for millennia by putting (or pressuring) an obligation to provide for a woman on the father of her children, a practice later institutionalized and extended in marriage.
Is there a better solution? Perhaps, perhaps not, but the reasons for that one are pretty clear.
Also, I'm a little concerned with the fact that this private family matter now involves government and employers. There is a worrying, at least to me, trend of corporations and governments regulating more and more of our private lives.
Yes, women have uteri and lactate while men don't. It really is that simple and societies have compensated for this for millennia by putting (or pressuring) an obligation to provide for a woman on the father of her children, a practice later institutionalized and extended in marriage.
Is there a better solution? Perhaps, perhaps not, but the reasons for that one are pretty clear.
Also, I'm a little concerned with the fact that this private family matter now involves government and employers. There is a worrying, at least to me, trend of corporations and governments regulating more and more of our private lives.