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Originally Posted by pyreaux
Completely civilian perspective, but it seems like just paying someone the extra $10,000 may go a bit further than offering to freeze some baby making cells.
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Nope. You are missing the point.
Reading between many of the lines of this article as written tells me that retention rates for women in child bearing years are really the concern.
See:
Women who reach 10 years of service — what Mr. Carter called “their peak years for starting a family” — have a retention rate that is 30 percent lower than their male counterparts.
“Particularly for women who are midgrade officers and enlisted personnel, this benefit will demonstrate that we understand the demands upon them and want to help them balance commitments to force and commitments to family,” Mr. Carter said. “We want to retain them in our military.”
If it were purely about aggregate numbers... a cash bonus would take care of that. But IMO, this is an attempt to target women and avoid the obvious backlash that would ensue if they said "$10K bonus to women only"
YMMV.