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4. The question of childbearing is so fraught for women, in all ways.
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 08:16 PM
Jun 2012

Women who choose not to have children are discriminated against. Women who have children are also discriminated against in different ways. It is now illegal to ask job candidates if they have children, because answers in the affirmative are often used as excuses not to hire women, in particular.

In the industrial world women are expected to work outside the home, yet also expected to have children and somehow effortlessly meld both these full-time responsibilities.

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