That's certainly true, it took my mother ~5 years to get back into her industry after having kids and even then it was lower in the org chart than she left at.

That's certainly true, it took my mother ~5 years to get back into her industry after having kids and even then it was lower in the org chart than she left at. I would still posit that reasonable people would be more sympathetic to a mother spending 2 years looking after children than a single guy playing a 2 year xbox marathon though.