collective failure

This Father's Day, allow men to enjoy paternity

Last year when Aurangabad resident Anoop Bijapurkar and his wife were expecting their first child, the IT engineer working with a Hyderabad firm was in for a rude shock. “I wanted to apply for paternity leave. But there were no policies in place at my office for paternity leave. My boss was prepared to give me a week's break at the most. When I told my HR that I wanted a longer period to be able to bond with my child, she simply said that as per company rules only women were allowed maternity leave and there was no provision at all for paternity leave,” says Bijapurkar, who finally got only a week's leave to spend time with his newborn.