Gender Equality

Heard from MyFM a few days ago that the Brits are going to let the fathers have up to 6 months of paternity leave.

I say it's about time someone did something about that gross gender inequality!

It's not always about the women you know? We men need loves too. =)

Apparently gender equality has a nifty icon:

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See, symbols of both genders are used yet almost everyone think only of the women when gender equality is mentioned, so unfair. =\

With (up to) 6 months of paternity leave, fathers all around the world would finally have a more levelled playing field to bond with their newborns as the mothers.

So we fathers could have an equal chance of witnessing the many "first" as well as exert equal influence to our newborns so they utter "papa" first instead of "mama".

Hey, these are bragging rights, okay? =P

If only Malaysia was also practising equal length of paternity and maternity leaves, then companies would have no basis of bias (openly or secretly) for either gender and employ solely based on skills and credits. The stupid racial quota notwithstanding, of course.

Not to mention it would have saved me a month of salary by not needing to hire the confinement lady and helped out my wife myself instead, hfft!

Yea, confinement lady makes as much money as I do. >.<