"In his absence, he says his temporary replacement allowed the store to fall into disarray. Carlson claims he was punished for the time it took to return the store up to standard. He began to feel as if they were building a case to make a move. In nine years of working for CVS, he said, he had never felt so scrutinized...
employees who become mothers experience a loss of wages and opportunities that isn’t justified by changes in their productivity. At home, mothers in heterosexual households are still shouldering an unequal share of the childcare – 28 years after Arlie Hochschild first raised alarm about the “second shift”...
Many fathers who take on roles stereotypically reserved for mothers find themselves fighting the same battles working mothers have fought going back decades, including the legal ones...
Employers reward fathers because they perceive fatherhood as a sign of a worker’s commitment, stability and “deservingness”, writes Michelle Budig, a professor at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst who has studied the trend. The fatherhood bonus is so pervasive, research suggests, that the wage gap between mothers and fathers has gotten wider even as the wage gap between men and women overall has gotten smaller.
But employers may not be rewarding fatherhood so much as rewarding a style of fatherhood that doesn’t require the employer to be flexible or accommodating."
FB: "Stories like his suggest something deeper is infecting the economy than skepticism about working mothers: a generalized hostility to offering anyone, male or female, the flexibility parenting takes."
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