Half of maternity leave accrue to the other parent and is non-transferable.
Of course, maternity leave isn't the only way in which women can chose family over career. Also, this kind of policy amounts to valuing "equality" for its own sake above everything else, like productivity.
.. Norway has labor productivity 35 percent higher per hour worked than the us does. They work a bit less, so the country as a whole is only 27% percent richer than the US is. Yhea, this is really a policy that dings economic productivity.
Also, basic logic: What is the contribution to the formal economy of a woman who can't find work due to gender discrimination?
I remember seeing a talk of the concept of privilege show up in the discussion thread on contrarian views.
Some discussion got started from "Feminism is a good thing. Privilege is real."
This is an article that presents some of those ideas in a way that might be approachable for LW.
http://curt-rice.com/quotas-microaggression-and-meritocracy/
One of the ideas I take out of this is that these issues can be examined as the result of unconscious cognitive bias. IE sexism isn't the result of any conscious thought, but can be the result as a failure mode where we don't rationality correctly in these social situations.
Of course a broad view of these issues exist, and many people have different ways of looking at these issues, but I think it would be good to focus on the case presented in this article rather than your other associations.