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Actually I'm not. Sexism isn't a weird term to use when women are discriminated against for having kids, when men are not. I have heard from a former bosses m
by fleitz 12y ago
Actually I'm not.
Sexism isn't a weird term to use when women are discriminated against for having kids, when men are not.
I have heard from a former bosses mouth that women are less productive having kids, despite myself and my former boss having had kids and being quite able to deal with having kids and getting shit done.
There certainly are women who can't set appropriate boundaries just like there are men who always need to rush off to save their children from some emergency. At one job we joked about starting to coach sports so we could take Friday afternoon off because most Fridays one guy was always gone 'coaching basketball'.
- yummyfajitas 12y agoAccording to the premises of myhf (the guy I asked the question to), women are discriminated against for being riskier and less productive employees than men. This is because women have special legal privileges that men don't have and will exercise them in order to work less. The phenomenon you are describing is an entirely different one. The phenomenon of viewing a woman who leaves her kids at home more negatively than a man who does the same would in fact fit the definition of sexism I described. It is also completely unrelated to maternity/paternity leave and the rest of this discussion.