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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it's just fine for a MB to get pregnant while working and cause her employer all sorts of trouble because maybe someone else in her office can carry MB's workload for up to a year. But since a nanny works solo, she needs to never get pregnant because it will make her MB's life difficult.

Good God. [/quote]

Correct. No one is telling nannies not to get pregnant, were telling them not to be nannies.[/quote]

Are we also telling women not to be doctors, lawyers, executives, or entrepreneurs because they might gestate and cause their employers to be inconvenienced?

Perhaps all women who are capable of gestating should simply not work?[/quote]

I'm a physician and I was fired because I was pregnant. It doesn't just happen to nannies. It's completely unfair that women who want to have children have a significant disadvantage in the workplace. But it is what it is. Doesn't make it right but my DC was 1000% worth losing my job over. [/quote]

And you would advocate doing the same to another woman, rather than breaking that cycle with, say, unpaid maternity leave but the guarantee of a job? Costing you little but treating her better than you were treated?

Or no, we should all just default to the lowest common denominator because "it is what it is."[/quote]

The problem is that it doesn't cost me "little." It's not just about her maternity leave during which I may not have to pay her but my children have to get used to a new person who will then leave after a month or 2. It's also all the time she needs off for doctors appointments during which I also have to find a backup sitter which again is not good for the children. And what if she is like PPs nanny? It's honestly not about the cost or what I have to do. It's about what's best for my children and no matter how unfair I might think it is to discriminate based on a woman's desire for children, the bottom line is that my children have to come first.[/quote]

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