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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have to love the  :twisted: war between SAHM's and WOHM's...The person that wrote "OMG...your thinking is so antiquated, then "wake up Grandma" is showing her true colors of rudeness and she probably enjoys reality TV too. (Have to love how minds are being manipulated through the boob tube...oh wait;that saying is antiquated; you might have to google it youngling.) You are probably rude to your parents too.

"Some" of the younger generation seem to have a tendency towards rudeness to make their points. Sort of like name calling at the playground...not too mature.

I am a SAHM that is a WAHM. Left a 75 hour a week high commission sales job to be at home with my babies. Saved so I could do this. Now I am self-employed. Recently, I decided to start interviewing for practice. [b]Reputable, larger companies will have HR departments that will not ask you questions about how are you going to manage your time when you have kids? Lawsuit.[/b] If you have an interview, they are interested whether you are 21 or 41. A 21 year old can get pregnant, stay out late at night drinking etc; a 41 year old might have elderly parents to take care of and children. We aren't robots. We all have lives. How we balance them makes us different.

Kudos to the woman who started this website. Found you.[/quote]

To quote the bolded statement, "Reputable, larger companies will have HR departments that will not ask you questions about how are you going to manage your time when you have kids? Lawsuit." That is the problem though. If they could ask this question maybe people would have the chance to answer. But the problem is they can't ask the question, they can't find out how, so they may dismiss you because they have a stack of resumes they don't have to wonder about or at least wonder about so obviously.

Not saying it's right, it's not. And it's not forward thinking on the part of the company either because I personally think they are missing out on a pool of qualified women, and I'm very pro women in the workforce, whether they have kids or not, whether they've taken off time to be a SAHM or not. But it can be reality. And saying just because they can't ask it doesn't mean it's a problem does not mean they don't base decisions on the unanawered quetions.[/quote]

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