My SD Moms 
PAID “BONDING” LEAVE FOR BOTH MALE AND FEMALE EMPLOYEES IS A LANDMARK FOR THE HISTORICALLY FAMILY-UNFRIENDLY TECH INDUSTRY.
Intel announced a new employee program today for new parents: eight weeks of paid “bonding time” leave for both mothers and fathers, on top of the company’s existing 13 weeks of paid leave offered to new mothers.
It’s a clear move to woo and retain valuable employees, and a lot more palatable than Apple’s and Facebook’s proposals to freeze female employees’ eggs so they can hold off on childbirth. Ultimately, it could help curb the tech sector’s general hostility toward work interruption, which can ruin careers and drives women in tech to choose between careers and parenting. But opening paid leave for both male and female parents has another benefit—it relieves pressure on same-sex couples who would otherwise need to navigate human resources departments in order to fight for paid time off.
