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From: jensting@diku.dk (Jens Tingleff)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Child making and rearing
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.125051.460@diku.dk>
Date: 7 Aug 90 21:04:56 GMT
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>In article <19929.26ab3a4a@oregon.uoregon.edu> davidw@oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
[..]
> > this should have ANY bearing on who gets hired, but many women feel
> > that their employer should pay for their time off while they're taking
> > care of their child.  HA!  Were I an employer, I would NOT set myself
> > up to be paying for a non-working employee.  The employer who WOULD is
> > masochistic and doesn't want his(yes, or her) money.

She (he) also doesn't want her (his) employees. Of course, with a
group of employees that are desperate to avoid unemployment the
employer may get away with having this attitude. If the employer has
to compete with other employers to employ these people (highly
skilled/educated employees), then she (he) should d*mn well have to
think differently.. .

Thankfully, for me this is academic, since Denmark has maternity leave
for both the mother and the father, so there !

	[Note for the less educated: Denmark is small country
	 in northern Europe. We do pay a lot of taxes, and
	 some of us think that we get quite a lot for these
	 taxes.. .]

	Jens
Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University
Snail mail: DIKU Universitetsparken 1 DK2100 KBH O
"It never runs around here; it just comes crashing down"
	apologies to  Dire Straits