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Maybe a misunderstanding, but the law in question (WAA) does not mention male or female employees but deals only with the right of changing th eweekly work hours for everyone. It is probably exercised most often after child birth, other than that, I would think that "women have the right" is wrong as a statement.

They can. The law does not discriminate.

Because typically workplaces are already biased towards men and employers do not need more incentives not to disadvantage male employees, I suspect.