After thursdays class I couldn't help but to continue thinking about what we had discussed in class that day. I found our conversation intriguing about women in the work place and their roles. What made me think the most was something my mom told me about where she works. She is upper management for capital one bank, and she dis-likes hiring younger women, in their "child bearing years" (as she put it). I know most people in the class thursday would probably disagree with my moms statement, but she to this day would much rather hire a male than a female. She has found in the past that younger women effect the departments efficiency especially if they get pregnant.
I do not necessarily believe it is fair for an employer to do something like this, but that is how the business world is now-a-days. Management wants to be as efficient as possible.
Think about it in relation to other assumptions and structures as well. it is only efficient if we assume that women will take off work to care for children and not men, that somehow men don't have children -- with the expception of the pregnancy piece -- which is not small effort i agree -- they do have children as well as woemn, that all women will have children, that there is no daycare or meical care on site or connected to the work so that issues of childcare don't become a 3rd job for women.
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