> It was too hard to juggle everything. Her manager had pressured her to return from leave early, and was pushing her again to take a business trip and leave he

> It was too hard to juggle everything. Her manager had pressured her to return from leave early, and was pushing her again to take a business trip and leave her nursing infant at home. Chose family over career. Had to make predictable work sacrifice in order to have time for family. > I was the first and only person at my small company ever to take maternity leave. They had no parental leave policy previously even though they had been around for about a decade, and, having under 50 employees, weren’t covered by FMLA. I (cluelessly!) agreed to go back to work part-time starting when my daughter was six weeks. There was no set place for me to pump [breast milk] while I was at work, so it was perpetually inconvenient and awkward to work at the office for longer than a couple hours at a time. Was aware that her small company didn't have structures in place, yet seems surprised they didn't have structures in place. Was accommodated about maternity leave, then quit because they didn't also have an extra room just for mothers. > She is one of 484 [67% of the sample] women to cite motherhood as a factor in her decision to leave tech. Two third of the women choose a larger family role over a more demanding job, yet complain about the work place consequences of doing so. > Rather, it was the lack of flexible work arrangements, the unsupportive work environment, or a salary that was inadequate to pay for childcare. According to the article, most women seem unwilling to accept that they have to make sacrifices associated with a family, and seem to think that its the obligation of the corporation to make their life choices work, rather than just continue to employ them if the situation is mutually workable. > Of the 716 women surveyed, 465 are not working today. Indeed, about two thirds of them opted not to return to a job immediately following their decision to place family over career. This strongly indicates a sampling bias towards women who would have left /any/ industry with a demanding work load in preference of family duties, and calls in to question if this is anything particular to tech. > Some women felt that their work environments were discriminatory, but most reported something milder: the simple discomfort of not fitting in in an otherwise homogenous setting. In fact, the article admits that it's not actually about any kind of discrimination in tech, but rather, that companies aren't going out of their way to favor women enough to get a critical mass of them employed and overcome this effect that trickles the qualified women back out of the field, keeping them from ever reaching that mass on their own. This article seems to mostly complain about a lack of privilege, and not actually complain about anything actionable on anyone else's part.