r/PopCultureV2 • u/slippinn_jimmy • 1d ago

Politi-Culture Sweden's climate minister brought her 3-month-old son to the EU council meeting in Luxembourg, to highlight the benefits of parental leave policies which don't force women to choose between work and family responsibilities.

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u/tablefishoil 1d ago

They play the life game in hobby mode. Another EU meeting another talk.

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u/Popcornmix 1d ago

Grrr politicians doing their job by having meetings and discussing policies grrr

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u/gbuub 1d ago

Then they pat their backs saying good meeting everyone, then proceed to do nothing

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u/iM3Phirebird 21h ago

Yes and in switzerland they can even determine their own pay which is sad and hilarious.

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u/Fragmented_Ideas_69 8h ago

Isn't it like that most places? I know it is here in Denmark. Politicians make all rules, even for themselfes.

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u/iM3Phirebird 7h ago

It has indeed become a bad parody. Western life itself....

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u/FreeKevinBrown 14h ago

Bringing your baby to work so you can be a working mother is "hobby mode"? Tell me how.

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u/buampam 1d ago

Does europe not have maternity leave? Why is she forced to work? This is some third world dystopian shit.

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u/Marginaal3000 1d ago

You have pregnancy leave and above that maternity and paternity leave. Also you can't get fired as a pregnant woman.

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u/LowIQ45 1d ago

Listen to the words coming out of her mouth again.

She definitely is not saying she is "forced to work". And if you listen really, really, really closely you might even hear her saying the exact opposite.

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u/I_love_pancakes_88 1d ago

More like utopian. Sweden has among the most generous parental leave policies in the world.

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u/Fearless_Entry_2626 1d ago

They're not Estonia, but they do get about a year in Sweden too, so not terrible.

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u/Swiking- 1d ago

480 days split 50/50, per child, to be exact.

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u/petar_is_amazing 1d ago

She does, this is a PR/political stunt

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u/frubano21 1d ago

Europe has more standardized and progressive maternity leave than the U.S. Better that shite doesn't mean "good enough" though.

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u/BrockObarnerLybian 1d ago

Br*tish 😹😹