It's all fun and games until you realize that your job promotions, raises, bonuses are also judged by like men. This is costing you real dollars and cents.

There is another aspect of this: when you get over, say 35, the bias intensifies. If you are married with kids, it's okay to be chubby in many social circles, but if you are single and/or in a corporate job, especially over the age of 35, if you are chubby, you slowly notice how you disappear from the sight of many…

"Women are allowed to do big things, but must do them fully leaned-in, hands raised, having it all. What remains impregnable to them are those refuges that shelter so many men: ordinariness and muddling through."

I realize I'm talking to a stupid person, probably who is not even earning a living for herself, still on the parent dole. Quite ignorant to think that using her own words to discuss her thoughts is insulting. Somehow believing that babies are the reason there aren't any more women in male dominated professions like…

""I would love to see more women filmmakers and in other demanding 10-12 hour day careers, but it won't happen because of babies. "

Maybeeee...not the best idea that you're the only influence on your kid's lives during the day.

Oh, you're back.

Oh, Pookie Doodle,

Amazing!

Gee, I'm just copying and pasting your own words.

It is a great thing for parents to model for their kids that women deserve to have a career and to exercise their talents outside the home. That mommy went to college to prepare actually for doing something she wanted to do and has interests and talents. Women find that they are even better parents when they have an…

No need to get hostile. You can work to change the terrain.

No need to get hostile. You can work to change the terrain.

No need to get hostile. You can work to change the terrain.

It comes down to choices. You mention nothing about enjoyment of work or the idea that a woman can be a better mother being satisfied by a job. A woman can be a better mother having a job vs staying at home.

Actually, if it happens all the time, that is the VERY definition of politically correct.

Well, Gloria Steinem has written and spoken a lot about the last frontier of feminism being in the home. As waves upon waves of women hook up over the years, it seems like the easier thing to do is to advocate for child care benefits openly than to ask their spouse to step up or to make sure you pick a partner who is…

I think she spoke political correctness when she said the reason there are no more female directors is because babies. Well, then, our work is done, says the biased men who hire.

Where is it, exactly stated that talking about not wanting kids is: 1. "topics that you don't want to talk about in the first place" and 2. a topic that does the "inviting the apparent trauma?"

Maybe you should've kept that little nugget to yourself on advising women keeping that "nugget" to themselves that they don't want kids. As if it just ain't proper for women to mention that to pregnant laydies and laydies with the children. It would give them da vapors. Your advice, your words, to wit: