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@ProfessionalTimeWaster, she may have children she’d like to spend time with, as well as her husband. Those are years you will never get back. When I read about the bosses who boasted they never went to any of their kids’ school activities, all I could think about was just how much they missed, and how disconnected they are from their families—-their kids might as well call them “Uncle Daddy”! They lose sight of the fact that, once they retire, the company isn’t going to fall apart. They’ll just hire their replacements, continue to do whatever they do, and forget all about them, almost the very moment their last days end, and they and the boxes of stuff from their desks are out the door. And who is going to be there waiting once that day comes? Their families—-unless they blew it, and totally alienated them then drove them away, that is.

Exactly. The woman who told her boss she couldn’t put in the extra time precisely because she doesn’t have a wife to do everything else, while she dedicates all her time to work, hit the nail right on the head. Though I now have a husband who was also single a long time like I was, and does his share of chores—-plus mine if I’m hung up at work—-when I was single I sure could’ve used the help. I always joked that I wish we were finally living in a Jetsons-style world. Then I would have my own personal Rosie the Robot Maid to cook and clean for me, so I could just flop down and relax, instead of putting in another shift, when I got home!

@TruthMonster - You are confusing equality with equity. Equality is judging everyone the same regardless of their circumstances. Equality is this boss expecting all his employees to cross the finish line at the same time, even tho the woman's start line is significantly further back than the mens. She can run at exactly the same speed as them, faster even, but will never be able catch up. She's judged as a failure despite having a harder job to do. Equity would be to move her finish line back in accordance to her start point, because that's fair. Then if she still can't keep up it's on her, not circumstances beyond her control. Google "equality vs equity" and you'll find examples to help you understand. Particularly good is the image of people of differing heights trying to see over a wall and how boxes can be distributed equally or equitably to help them.

@Charlotte (2) I'm not confusing anything. You're trying to justify sexism. You're of the same position as a boss saying its ok to pay a man more, "Because he has a family support."

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So he should treat them unequally because she is a woman, Charlotte? You can't have it both ways. Either he treats them the same and expects the same, or he's a sexist because his expectations of an employee change with their sex. Her home life is irrelevant to this equation. Her male counterparts may also have struggles equal to hers.

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Lots of city women use domestic help to clean/cook/laundry. And this woman seems upper urban middle class. Such set in stone stereotypes are not universal experiences of Indian women. We occupy the whole spectrum - from being denied education to leading researches in universities. From having to sacrifice career, to getting top job in corporates. From fighting for financial independence to become CEOs of banks. From being confined at home to protecting animals from poachers in jungles. From victims of crime to perpetrator of crimes. Please stop painting half billion women with a prejudiced brush. And sewing?? No, tailors do that..and ofcourse women who want to sew. Just leaving this image out there - not to deny suffering, bias or problems Indian women face or to whitewash the situation, but simply to throw light on the positives, which exists along the negatives and the neutrals. And it's from 1976 (when apparently we were way more backward) taken during Cholera vaccination drive. IndianWoma...03ce7c.jpg