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"Mr President, I want to reference the issue of paternity leave. Fathers have got to step up and stay at home, and governments must help them to do that. Shared responsibility for new-born babies is the key to equality in the labour market, but the responsibility will always fall on women unless governments introduce better paternity leave circumstances. Women will always suffer in their careers if they are the ones to take the time off to mind children.
Paternity leave is a real solution to equality in the workplace, but a huge culture shift has to be achieved and governments in the EU are going to have to drive that. I am conscious that employers, particularly in small businesses, would fear the cost of temporarily losing men as well as women to these family-friendly policies, but I urge them to change their views on family life and family time off.
Employees being absent is a cost to business; I recognise that, especially for small businesses. But I think we are going to have to accept that it is a cost to business just like rent, rates, holiday pay, electricity costs and other benefits. Populations need to be replaced and if people stop having children because their careers cannot bear a few months’ absence, then the cost to us all would be much greater in the long run.
We have to take a wider society view here and not think of rearing children as something that is best done in one’s spare time."@en1
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