"if you were a guy and worked part time in order to spend time with your family, I guarentee that you're not going to be tapped for promotion over the guy who is working 90 hours a week and spending no time with his family."
Actually, this is exactly the direction being alert to the secondary issues of gender equality leads to in my workplace (in a technical field where women are still rare). People have observed that part time workers are more diligent with their time (since we bill hourly, this matters), than people who are just hanging around at work because they don't have lives (or lives they want to devote time to) outside of it.
The way to do it is to explicitly de-gender family-friendly policies. This has worked for my employer. I have several male coworkers who are the primary caregivers, by the definition of 'if the kid gets sick, the one that stays home from work and takes kid to the doctor is the primary caregiver', and it's not uncommon to hear in meetings 'It's 5pm. I must go /right now/ to get the kids from daycare.' from a man anymore.
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Date: 2007-05-02 06:57 pm (UTC)Actually, this is exactly the direction being alert to the secondary issues of gender equality leads to in my workplace (in a technical field where women are still rare). People have observed that part time workers are more diligent with their time (since we bill hourly, this matters), than people who are just hanging around at work because they don't have lives (or lives they want to devote time to) outside of it.
The way to do it is to explicitly de-gender family-friendly policies. This has worked for my employer. I have several male coworkers who are the primary caregivers, by the definition of 'if the kid gets sick, the one that stays home from work and takes kid to the doctor is the primary caregiver', and it's not uncommon to hear in meetings 'It's 5pm. I must go /right now/ to get the kids from daycare.' from a man anymore.