Twitter reacts to Maneka Gandhi's comment on paternity leave

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said that the demand for paternity leave will have very little impact and will just be a holiday for men, reported a newspaper.

This comes days after the maternity bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha and growing insistence for a paternity bill.

"Paternity leave can be considered only if, once the woman goes back to work after her 26 weeks of leave, we find that men are availing their sick leave for a month to take care of the child. Let me see how many men do that. I will be happy to give it but for a man, it will be just a holiday, he won't do anything," Maneka Gandhi told The Indian Express .

Many took to twitter to react to her statement:

Dear Maneka Gandhi
Role of a father is equally as important as that of a mother, this mentality is pathetic m pic.twitter.com/AiboSGjJ0B

- Sarah Jacob (@JacobSarah24) August 24, 2016

 

 

#ManekaGandhi does it again. I am not even shocked now after her comments on marital rape and saying "all" violence is male generated.

- Ojaswini Srivastava (@ojaswiniS) August 24, 2016

 

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Shameful statement of Maneka Gandhi, she is well known to be a male hater. She should be remove from @MinistryWCD https://t.co/UKoVo6XjqO

- Deeptanshu Shukla (@deeptanshukla) August 24, 2016

 

By refusing paternity leave, Maneka Gandhi is effectively saying that only women are expected to bring up a child. Hmmm

- Gappistan Radio (@GappistanRadio) August 24, 2016