Working women who choose not to have children are treated by their employers with less respect than those who take time off to give birth, new research shows. Non-mothers are "vilified" in the workplace and frequently refused jobs and denied promotions.
Dr Caroline Gatrell, a director at Lancaster University Management School, who has spent six years interviewing about 1,500 women, said: "Women who explicitly choose career over kids are often vilified at work and face enormously unjust treatment."
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Yeah, we've also heard that employers are skittish about hiring women of childbearing age, lest they plan on getting pregnant and riding the gravy train. JEEZ LOUIEEZ, journos! Make up your minds! *snark*
I think the "humanity" issue with childfree women is a smokescreen.
Employers don't want to hire us because we have nothing keeping us at the job except our dedication and work ethic - if things get bad enough, we can leave. Mothers are more likely to stay even in a bad job because they have their kids to think of.
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