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About 20 states do not have familial status protections, so that means the boss can give me extra work while the person with kids gets extra time off.

https://www.workplacefairness.org/marital-status-state-law

https://www.abetterbalance.org/resources/family-status-and-c...

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So the problem is the boss and/or the company, because they are the ones assigning the extra work, right? Just want to make sure we assign the blame appropriately.

Formally or informally, it’s generally a societal expectation that the childless will pick up the slack in the workplace.

It’s too bad society couldn’t be more realistic, and sacrifice some productivity instead of just pushing the work around. Central banks printed trillions of dollars in a matter of weeks (incinerating some currency value) to keep the economy alive, this is no different. We’re still collectively optimizing for the wrong metrics.

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