Its a topic that comes up a lot in the media in various guises and hot topics obviously come and go but it feels like until women make up > 50% of everything deemed male dominated it won't stop.
There are a huge number of industries where women outnumber men but that isn't an issue. Tech however is constantly berated for having too few women. No suggestion that it appeals to men more than women its simply an issue with sexism.
The number of CEOs in huge businesses is heavily skewed in favour of men again. This isn't because to become vital to billion $ companies you have to dedicate your professional and personal life to them, no, its again sexist.
Women should be able to have children, not work for years and not suffer in their careers in any way. I don't know about most of you but a lot of the time when I talk to women about maternity leave or you overhear them talking about it its clear why its such a big issues.
A large percentage of women wish to have children and raise their children themselves. They don't want to work a 9-5 stressful job and miss their children growing up. Having children is a big time sink and having more than one will take over your life in most cases. The majority of women do not see this as an issue. It is what they want. They may go back to work but it quite often isn't full time and things change. Being out of an industry for a few years is hard.
A large percentage of women see their company as a pinata to whack to see how much cash they can squeeze from them and will time pregnancies to essentially not work for a few years and then leave the company at the end of it. If you do it right you can have 2 children and barely go back to work. A lot of people don't see an issue with this.
There are a lot of statistics about the gender pay gap for mothers vs men yet they never seem to explain who they are including and what their criteria is for the data.
I think we should do what we can to help people who want to work whatever their circumstances but it feels like we are getting to the point of trying to make having a child something that doesn't affect your life at all.
If you take the pregnancy out of the equation completely and you tell a company that one of their employees isn't going to be about for perhaps a year, they may come back for a little bit and then do the same again, they may do this for a few years and never come back. All the time you cannot replace them properly as they could come back. This is the biggest barrier in my opinion to women progressing in some areas. Children also mean your situation can change rapidly at any time.
Anyway, it just annoys me how one sided the debate on these things is in the media. It seems like if you disagree then you are sexist.
There are a huge number of industries where women outnumber men but that isn't an issue. Tech however is constantly berated for having too few women. No suggestion that it appeals to men more than women its simply an issue with sexism.
The number of CEOs in huge businesses is heavily skewed in favour of men again. This isn't because to become vital to billion $ companies you have to dedicate your professional and personal life to them, no, its again sexist.
Women should be able to have children, not work for years and not suffer in their careers in any way. I don't know about most of you but a lot of the time when I talk to women about maternity leave or you overhear them talking about it its clear why its such a big issues.
A large percentage of women wish to have children and raise their children themselves. They don't want to work a 9-5 stressful job and miss their children growing up. Having children is a big time sink and having more than one will take over your life in most cases. The majority of women do not see this as an issue. It is what they want. They may go back to work but it quite often isn't full time and things change. Being out of an industry for a few years is hard.
A large percentage of women see their company as a pinata to whack to see how much cash they can squeeze from them and will time pregnancies to essentially not work for a few years and then leave the company at the end of it. If you do it right you can have 2 children and barely go back to work. A lot of people don't see an issue with this.
There are a lot of statistics about the gender pay gap for mothers vs men yet they never seem to explain who they are including and what their criteria is for the data.
I think we should do what we can to help people who want to work whatever their circumstances but it feels like we are getting to the point of trying to make having a child something that doesn't affect your life at all.
If you take the pregnancy out of the equation completely and you tell a company that one of their employees isn't going to be about for perhaps a year, they may come back for a little bit and then do the same again, they may do this for a few years and never come back. All the time you cannot replace them properly as they could come back. This is the biggest barrier in my opinion to women progressing in some areas. Children also mean your situation can change rapidly at any time.
Anyway, it just annoys me how one sided the debate on these things is in the media. It seems like if you disagree then you are sexist.
