Why American women are leaving the work force

[MillCreek]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/upshot/us-employment-women-not-working.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&abt=0002&abg=0

Children play a big role.

[dogmush]

It's propaganda. Manadatory, paid maternity leave (like 6-9 mos) is a new hobby horse of the left.  My annoying SIL is always posting on Facebook about it.

"We need to be more like Europe, I never see my girls,  I had to borrow leave.  Wahhhh" 

They want something,  and someone else should pay for it.

[Boomhauer]

It's propaganda. Manadatory, paid maternity leave (like 6-9 mos) is a new hobby horse of the left.  My annoying SIL is always posting on Facebook about it.

"We need to be more like Europe, I never see my girls,  I had to borrow leave.  Wahhhh" 

They want something,  and someone else should pay for it.

This...when somebody utters the words "We need to be more like Europe" I want to bitchslap them. If they like *expletive deleted*ing Europe so much, then go  over there and never come back.

[Neemi]

Some reform would be good with maternity leave. Sure, there's FMLA, but that only applies if you work full time. If you work part time, you're lucky to be offered six weeks of unpaid leave.

I don't want to go back to work in a germy hospital with a six week old at home... Thankfully I've had good managers who let me take off more time (up to the 12 weeks like FMLA) but it's still stressful - having to hope that they didn't change their minds while I'm gone and hire someone else.

Would I like more paid maternity leave? Sure, but not at someone else's expense.

[RoadKingLarry]

While I'm not unsympathetic, generally speaking childbirth isn't usually a surprise. We always had pretty much at least 8 months heads up about the impending event.
A little pre-planning can go a long way.

[Ron]

There seems to be a lot of confusion about jobs these days.

Folks think jobs come from government policies and exist so we have something to do and can have money.

It's inside out upside down backwards world out there.

The fact that business has a need and that they want to fill that position with the best person they can find for the least amount of money is abhorrent to our cultural Marxist friends.

The growing opinion is that jobs are something we are entitled to and it better not be one that is below ones station or demeaning!

[Viking]

There seems to be a lot of confusion about jobs these days.

Folks think jobs come from government policies and exist so we have something to do and can have money.

It's inside out upside down backwards world out there.

The fact that business has a need and that they want to fill that position with the best person they can find for the least amount of money is abhorrent to our cultural Marxist friends.

The growing opinion is that jobs are something we are entitled to and it better not be one that is below ones station or demeaning!

IIRC, that's one of the official policies of atleast one political party over here. Right to a job.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

We have right to work states but it's not the same is it


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[Viking]

We have right to work states but it's not the same is it


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No. Right to get a job, labor demands be damned.

[MechAg94]

You also need to differentiate between just being employed and actually being productive in the job.  I kind of wonder if some people leave out that 2nd part. 

[French G.]

You want to see un-employed women then go ahead and institute mandatory paid maternity leave. Legal or not HR people will find ways to hire people who will not be partaking. I'm a protected class of employee as a military reservist. I gots my ratz under USERRA. I take pains not to abuse my employer and try to consider their scheduling needs. The military may be sending me a pension but right now they pay 10% of my bills. I'm the first reservist to work for this company too and don't want to poison the well for any future hires.