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You might want to see how generous your service is with its Shared Parental Leave.
If they pay the partner of the mother the same amount as the mother it may be beneficial for you to take more time off!
Too many fire services like to wave the flag for equality and ‘challenging outdated stereotypes’ but fail to walk the walk when it might cost them money.
The overwhelmingly male fire services are happy to perpetuate the system where it is presumed that the mother should be the main carer for a newborn.

You know what they say Art, words are cheap, and actions cost money.
To be fair that mantra is not the preserve solely of the fire service, it’s mainly the preserve of a political class hell bent on convincing us that we are sexist, and in need of guidance, and used by some to promote themselves in their chosen careers, and believed by some they manage, but rarely by those who manage themselves. The fact is it was those who accuse us of being sexist, that for decades were actually sexist themselves, the establishment.