Well, i didn't know that - per fmla, when you're on leave w/o pay, for x-amount of time,

you have to make up the difference of what your employer pays for health benefits.  And those payments have to be on time.  So, how does that work?  Getting a reduced, if any, pay, and now you owe, yet another bill?  All's i know is, about half the time, the ill person is not you, but a child, or other family member.  And you can bet your reduced check, it's the women who end up eff'd out of their pay checks - if not their future earning power.  But she isn't the only one who gets a bum steer.

So, the pages in her inbasket continue to accumulate.  But the work has to be done ... by someone.  Yep, give it to that co-worker in the next cube.   And that co-worker probably doesn't have family obligations  -  yep, here we go with the mommy/non-mommy track wars.  

Ya hear the child-free party rant.  And yeah, they've a point.  Unfortunately, way more often than not, their socio-politics is ssso rooted in hedonI$m...so much for credibility:/  Because the Biblical FACT remains:  we're supposed to want kids, and people who don't, are some 99 out of 100, just plain self centered - want their stupid little hobbIe$ (which don't amount to...well, much of anything, really) and whatever other entertaInment$.  Gag. With. Spoon :/

From a worldling point of view, you wonder why our economy is on life support??  It's because there are not enough young people to pass the baton to, as we 60-somethings - having been working for the past 40-some years - either want to, or have to, go part-time or full retIrement.   Meanwhile, young people are tax burdened - for things (like boomers) for which they won't benefit...and young people cop an attitude??  Well, duh.

All just comes back around, to what happens when, sadly, the Bible gets ignored, and women get pushed into the workforce.  Yes pushed, because when the kids are little, mom would rather be home with them - and not having to straddle two completely different worlds, and trying to deal with the mediocrity...because, most of us can only multitask so much, for so long.

Yep, we ignore the Word, and then beef about the mess we're all in.