Well, you don't need a 100Mbit pipe for a dumb terminal. There is nothing preventing a useful remote desktop session on wifi to your workstation back on campus.

Well, you don't need a 100Mbit pipe for a dumb terminal. There is nothing preventing a useful remote desktop session on wifi to your workstation back on campus. Except possibly for an overzealous IT department (the kind that blocks upgrading from IE6 because of "security risks"). Also, what you are describing is a job in a bureaucracy. This kind of environment isn't something do be proud of, it's something you work despite (though this is my personal preference, and there may be people who like this). The point of the article isn't that it's easy for any workplace to accomodate a mother working from home. It's that it is doable. This depends on someone higher up in management having the will to do this. But this is a management problem, not a problem of discrimination against women. Basically, this is not a problem if the people higher up in the food chain would start treating their subordinates as human beings. Which, sadly, might just be too much to ask of a lot of managers.