“I just started my first year and will likely graduate at 30.”
[It’s] important to have women on the hiring committees."
“It’s unfortunately true,” saidu/it_is_Karo.
How do I know that was the reason?
[She must have been] looking at my profile picture there."
“My boyfriend’s sister is going into the same field as me,” saidu/mongoosedog12.
One woman,u/Comprehensive-Army65, wrote, “I got laid off for taking maternity leave.
And Im in Canada.
I didnt even bother.”
This throw in of discrimination doesn’t go away when people get past childbearing age, either.
“On the flip side, with being older, ageism is rampant,” saidu/Chance_Split_7723.
I’m not dead.
I can still learn things.
It’s frustrating."
Useru/Mahdreamswrote, “When looking into companies, find one with maternityandpaternity leave.
We give 12 weeks' paid leave toeitherpartner, adoption and surrogacy included.
It speaks to the culture of the company when the benefit works for everyone.
It discourages this kind of thinking.”
That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
[But] even women employers do that.
They know they’re enabling men, and they like it.
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