This is VERY narrow minded, and, to be honest, somewhat insulting. You suggest that "time at work" and "family" are the only important things to women.
First off, "working too many hours", and "too much travel" are considerably MORE onerous when you DON'T have a family to back you up - especially if you have a house to be maintained, animals to be fed and exercised, and so on. If you have a family, they can pick up some of the slack when you have to work late or travel. If not, you have to struggle to find a pet sitter and so forth. Furthermore, many of us have extensive non-family commitments outside of work - serious (time consuming) hobby's and competitions, volunteer organizations for which we are part of the management team, to say nothing of exercise and sleep. No! "too much travel and too many hours" is NOT "pretty much the same" as "takes time away from family". Janet . From: Yoav Nir <y...@checkpoint.com> And then this: Among the common factors that women cited as their reasons for leaving the profession were too much travel, working too many hours, lack of real or perceived opportunities for advancement, and uncivil work environments where women were treated in condescending or patronizing manners. Only 25 percent of the women who left engineering did so for family reasons. So on the one hand they claim that women are not leaving to take care of their families, but on the other the first two correct reasons they mention are too much travel and too many hours. I think these two are pretty much the same, and the primary reason why someone (male or female) would object to travel and long hours is because it takes time away from family.
