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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In 2003, [b]I was a young mom and turned down for a job in favor of a less-qualified single woman because she didn't have children.[/b] [/quote]

Oh, and fwiw, the boss who did this was a woman - a single woman but a woman. There were women bosses who echoed the misogynistic corporate behavior. [/quote]

I didn't have children. That doesn't mean I didn't have family obligations with parents and sibling and large extended family nearby. At the peak of my career, my mother had terminal cancer and she only had so much time to live. I was caring for her and my father who was self-employed in a blue collar field. He couldn't really afford to take off work. He didn't even know how to set up an answering machine. I did all of that, as  a woman. He didn't have a cell phone. When my mother needed at home care, I paid for it, and I was the point of contact for all emergencies.

I was a SIPRNet room, where I couldn't bring my cell phone.

Would you have been able to manage that? Maybe. I don't think having children is necessarily the most challenging, most daunting experience in care giving a working woman could have. [/quote]

No, I couldn’t have worked, taken care of my kids and sick parents at the same time - but I could take care of my kids and work full-time. As a matter of fact, I did.

It’s interesting how having kids has been held against women but other family responsibilities are not considered, for either men or women. Then again, fewer women leave professional or managerial jobs to take care of their parents compared to a few generations ago. [/quote]

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