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- From: rrg@rtp.fibercom.com (Rhonda Gaines)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Is There A Mommy Track for Technical Professionals?
- Message-ID: <45300@fibercom.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:12:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.134715.18641@spider.co.uk> alisonjw@spider.co.uk (Alison J Wyld) writes:
- #Suppose two people join a company on the same day, work equally hard,
- #and are equally valued and appreciated. 5 years later the leave on
- #the same day. One is leaving to work for another company, the other
- #to have a baby. In this country at least, person A will be praised
- #and congratulated and told s/he'll be missed. Person B will be
- #gossiped and whispered about and someone will no doubt say "that's
- #what you get for employing women, they're just not committed".
- #This _really_ annoys me.
-
- This really annoys me too!!!! I have recently had some sitter
- problems and have had to either bring my daughter in to work w/ me
- or stay at home (I tried to lobby for work from home for 8 weeks
- after my 6-week maternity leave....NOT!!). We have an employee who
- has some severe allergy problems and he is "allowed" much more
- leniancy (sp?) than I am. To top it off, these folks seem to think
- they are fairly liberal! Regardless of the eventual outcome, I
- *will not* allow them to make #1job, #2family!! It's ridiculous,
- and people wonder what's wrong w/ the children of today? I say
- what's wrong w/ the adults/society!!
-
- Gee that felt good!
-
- #(I'm not sure how folk would react if person B were a man, staying
- #home with his kids, possibly better).
-
- You're probably right.
-
-
- -rhonda
- mom to Cherie 16 weeks!
-