Men and Women equal? No, never.

[Tiberius]

I believe when he said the woman is not going to be doing anything for a year he was referring to UK maternity leave, which is paid leave for upto a year. Most women take the whole year, but some only take 6 months because the pay goes down half-way through.

Suddenly, I know why Tiberius is always going on about misandry 0.o If that's true, then that's absolutely psychotic.

Not that I personally understand the idea of 'paid leave'. Sounds like it's meant as a social safety net for when you get injured... but I think that could be more easily granted through socialism (maybe try a mixed charity-socialism? Where if charity isn't there sufficiently for them, the society will pay the remainder as a tax?). If it's getting used like this... well: I would never hire a female with any reasonable chance of becoming/being pregnant.

I can understand paid leave up to a point. If you have a really good employee, and they get ill through no fault of their own, it makes sense to keep them on the payroll so they can resume their work (with no ill feelings) when they get better. Mandatory maternity leave pay is ridiculous though. Sure, it's nice when a company does do it, but they shouldn't be obliged to pay for something that is the result of an active choice by the employee (most of the time).