An edict from Her Majesty: Yahoo's CEO betrays her womanhood and workers of both genders

[CTyankee]

40. I realize that men want to telecommute, too, and that is fine.

My sense was that since women do more of the share of childcare and housework overall telecommuting makes sense. My daughter did that until her child care provider became just too unreliable when her second child came, so she reluctantly had to resign. It was too bad, really. She liked her job. Now my daughter in law is facing the same prospect. She has someone all lined up for after she uses up her maternity leave. My son can't telecommute since he is a prosecutor. If their plans break down she will have to seek day care because she has to work (they live in NYC). Both my daughter and dtr in law were/are editors. Both highly educated from high ranking schools.

Personally, I think a good solution can be found in on-site affordable day care, since we aren't about to get extended maternity leave like that of the Western European and Scandinavian countries. I also think that your experience is probably not the norm. My experience has been that women have found themselves willing and wanting to work and contribute their own gifts to the workplace but are constrained for lack of child care. Generally speaking, they give up their jobs and the men continue to work. And we wonder why more women are high ranking CEO's...