> Is that not a form of discrimination? Men have kids and still get promoted. Worse than that, I fear that the old-fashioned stay-at-home wife and children is

> Is that not a form of discrimination? Men have kids and still get promoted. Worse than that, I fear that the old-fashioned stay-at-home wife and children is even an unspoken (and unconscious) promotion qualification in many organisations. Sometimes it's even semi-formalized: a glass ceiling for people who never lived abroad on a company project assignment, combined with an informal policy to not send unmarried people because they get too distracted by the locals. The result is higher ranks uniformly filled with people with spouses that don't have a career of their own that they can't easily shift abroad (or put on hold) for the duration of the assignment.