Is it uncool for men to take time off to deal with a family emergency or to attend a kid’s recital? There’s a story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about how some companies are trying to remove the stigma from flextime as a way to attract more female employees.(”To Retain Valued Women Employees, Companies Pitch Flextime as Macho”) They figure if they can get more of their male employees to take advantage of flexible schedules it will make them look like management is enlightened.
It’s amazing that we’re still having this debate. Women have to stop carrying the family-burden monkey on their backs. Is it because so many women still drop out of the work world to stay home with their babies even after they are no longer babies? Maybe we deserve what we get. And are men too chicken to step up to the plate and admit they want to and need to take over some of the family frenzy? Maybe they deserve what they get.
What’s going on people?