Apologies. I certainly didn't mean that to come across as sounding like I think that all women take loads of time off to raise kids, or women should take time off to look after kids, or that men work harder than women or anything like that at all.
I'm simply talking about averages and the need to report meaningful statistics.
I'm saying that, across the UK in general, a significantly more women (still, in this day and age) take years off to raise kids than men
My employer is now stating that it must count years spent on maternity leave as 'in the job' experience in any promotion decisions, or suchlike. So I have apparently no experience advantage over the woman who started on the same day as me seven years ago and has had three years off in the meantime. It's bad enough that she gets the same salary when she works 0901-1659 and leaves no matter what needs doing, but to me that's the acceptable face of family friendliness. That she then gets WFTC on top of that, so in effect I am doing her work for her, for the privilege of subsidising her taxes, begins to irk. But the suggestion that she's done the job for as long as me is just a flat out lie.
If you think experience is irrelevant, say so, don't invent some lie whereby 3.5 = 7.
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