Thats cause your not 6 days overdue
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No really YES some men do not accept that a woman will not EVER have kids, why? cause Statistically they WILL. Either adoption or 'natural' women are GENETICALLY designed to want and bear children. FACT. Statistically they do, sorry.
Does that make us less hireable? In the eyes of an employer it is a sure fire thing. Whereas heart attack is not. I don't know the statistics of how many men have heart attacks and fail to return to work, vs how many women have children. But I have a strong suspicion that women have more kids than men have heart attacks (and do not return to work a lot more often, not to mention miss work due to Dr apointments for the kid AND for mom, heart attack dude only misses for his) And BTW MOST fields do not worry to much about it, MOST Employers don't mind.. In fact I don't know if you looked at other states but since blatant discrimination is illegal, one state has to have made the mistake already and be willing to hire a woman.
Does our childbearing habits make it ok to not hire a woman? NO, but I will not fault an employer for trying to find the cheapest labor (training and wage), I certainly shop around if I were planning on hiring a babysitter or lawn matenence or whathave you. And like I said, keeping people thinking women will work for less ahem not to sound redundant, KEEPS people thinking women WILL work for less.