Republicans, and their women, cannot understand that

[SheilaT]

3. While prospective employers

cannot legally ask those questions, when I returned to the workforce after 25 plus years of being a stay-at-home mom, and no we weren't rich, just decided to do it that way, I found it easy to mention that my children were grown. The subtext was that I wasn't going to be getting pregnant any time soon (actually, I was post-menopause) and that I no longer had any child related responsibilities.

The sad truth is that the workplace is inordinately hostile to workers who have any kind of child related obligations. Women do tend to carry the major part of that burden, but there are single fathers out there, as well as fathers who simply want to participate more in their children's lives. But all too often the assumption is that the job comes first. We need a fundamental change in the entire attitude of our workplaces.

And this would also benefit those who don't currently have young children. Work would become more reasonable. Everyone could have a life.