Even shorter times away from work for working fathers are already difficult. A study found that 85% of new fathers take some time off after the birth of a child—— but for all but a few,it’s a week or two at most. Meanwhile, the average for women who take leave is more than 10weeks.Such choices impact who moves up in the organization. While you’re away, someone else is doing your work, making your sales, taking care of your customers. That can’t help you at work. It can only hurt you. Women, of course, face the same issues of returning after a longabsence. But with many more women than men choosing to leave the workforce entirely to raise families, returning from an extended parental level doesn’t raise as many eyebrows as it does from men.Why do few men take along parental leave?