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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where this guy's argument is exposed as sexism and not just "speaking truth in a PC world" is in his saying a woman having a baby affects her forever, but men going through focus-pulling events (like divorce) are only temporarily affected.  Nothing in his statements implies that a man going through a divorce is permanently incapable of reaching the highest levels, but everything he says implies that he thinks a woman is permanently incapable after having kids.

and I love how his whole argument seems based on two women he knew 40 years ago.[/quote]

Exactly. This, and the fact that he assumes it is true for everyone. Who knows, maybe it will be true for me -- though I hope not -- but I know plenty of women for whom it is not true. Women who do a terrific job at work and, I assume, do at least a reasonable job at home raising their kids. Ditto for men. Almost everyone in my office has kids except for me (and I am pregnant), and we are a highly competent, high-producing bunch. I think my colleague who argued a case in front of a federal court a few weeks ago would be surprised to hear that her young child "killed" her focus at work.[/quote]

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