I don't know about women taking more time off at the office, right now my wife has about 360 hours of accumulated time off not counting her sick time. She's going to have to start taking vacation days just so she doesn't start losing it. She has had to take time off because of me in the past, when I had my transplant she took six weeks off (family medical) that was paid, and then took a couple of more weeks off when I had my bypass, and that too was family medical leave, none of which came out of her vacation leave.

BTW she's the executive assistant to an associate vice president at the UofM.