Sexism

div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/151025/goposaurinheels.jpg” alt=”" height=”184″ width=”275″ //div The Republican Party has a complicated relationship with sexism. Yes, Republicans patted themselves on the back in 2010 for a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/06/27/879595/-Republicans-discover-the-F-word?detail=hide”realizing that chicks can run for office too/a.

div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/151025/goposaurinheels.jpg” alt=”" height=”184″ width=”275″ //div You can tell a Republican woman running for office is getting desperate when she plays the sexism card. pSee, while she’s doing well in the polls, raising plenty of money, and even convincing her party to take her seriously, there’s no such thing as sexism. Nope.

On NPR’s All Things Considered , Erin Killian reports, Parental Leave: The Swedes Are The Most Generous : Sweden has some of the most generous parental leave laws in the world — and the government not only considers the mother, but also the father. Parents are allocated a total of 480 days per child, which they can take any time until the child is 8 years old. They can share these days, although 60 are allocated specifically to the father. And they are entitled to receive 80 percent of their wages, although this is capped at a certain level.