WOMEN WHO TAKE PAID MATERNITY LEAVE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BECOME STAY-AT-HOME MOMS, AND THAT’S A PROBLEM BECAUSE REASONS. “Maybe rational women, who respond to the incentive of paid leave, also analyze other aspects of life in economic terms and figure out the value of the work done in the home, the costs of going to work, and the good reasons to institute division of labor within the family, with only one parent engaged in money-earning outside the home. Maybe you get some perspective on life and economics when you’ve got the time to reflect and plan. When you’re outside of the workplace, you may develop a sense of the meaning of life that isn’t workplace-based? Does the government want that not to happen?!”