The pay gap shows up even though women have access to more kinds of paid leave.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the researchers found that men very much want to take leave to care for their loved ones. And many already do:
The gap in caregiving pay that New America found is different from the gender wage gap in at least one key way: It is Fathers also face heavy cultural pressure at work and home to keep earning money, while mothers face an opposing pressure to prioritize caregiving. Dave Sucharski, a father from Pennsylvania who spoke to New America, was back to work just a week after his wife went through a difficult childbirth, with his daughter ending up in intensive care. He didn’t have access to any paid parental leave through his job at a small firm ― and his wife had to piece together partial pay through disability insurance, 12 weeks unpaid leave and all her vacation and sick time just to get by herself.
“Research ... suggests that same-sex couples adopt breadwinning and caregiving divisions of labor similar to heterosexual couples, especially after having children,” she said.
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