Fired from your job for becoming pregnant.
Do women who become pregnant prevent other women from getting the top positions or passed over for the male because of pregnancy?
2006-10-17 18:38:15 · 12 answers · asked by Tiffany 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It's unfortunate, but until recently it was unheard of for a woman to get to the top of the corporate ladder, but that is finally changing. Just ask Indra K Nooyi, mother of two daughters and now CEO of PepsiCo! While the number of female CEOs of a fortune 500 company is very small compared with the male population, there is hope that this will change in the future (see source below for more details on the most influential women in business today.
But in response to your question, while it is illegal to terminate someone for a pregnancy, a person who puts their family over their career pays a high price when it comes to the corporate ladder climbing. Companies will generally reward loyalty and the person who leaves to take care of a sick child when there is a pressing deadline will get bypassed very quickly when compared to the person who is there day in and day out when there is a pressing deadline.
2006-10-17 18:50:02 · answer #1 · answered by Searcher 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pregnant women (or already moms) certainly should not be penalized, but you know that they do, and you are right that women who get pregnant prevent other women from getting promoted (or the idea of them, really). Men (women too) in a position to promote/hire a woman of child-bearing age, will say, "Well, she will probably get pregnant and take a leave or quit. Let's hire/promote the man."
It happens; it always will. The trick is to find companies who don't think that way. They ARE out there, I've worked for them.
2006-10-17 18:44:35 · answer #2 · answered by dashelamet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If we do value the future of our children, we do want them supervised.
This raises the question of moms missing or wishing they could miss work often when raising their children.
BUT, aren't we becoming more progressive and finding more and more DADS actively involved in raising the children too? After all, it takes two for a child to happen. Do dad's get penalized, or passed over for promotions, or simply not hired because they have young children, or soon will?
Childcare facilities, widely available with well paid staff would certainly help many struggling families as well. They are extremely rare in rural areas, and rarely affordable for many urban working moms.
As an older woman, I can tell you that working women get chastised for not "being a good mom". On the other hand, stay at home women get chastised for not "working to provide the best for their children." Men are simply expected to work. Some progressive men find chastisement if they become "stay at home dads" while the mom works.
We're all doing our best. We need rather to focus as problematic, children that are abused, neglected, too poor to receive proper nutrition, or health care. Corporate discriminators need to realize a good future generation needs to be nurtured in order for them to survive as well.
Believe me, not only young women are discriminated against. Older women who did stay home to raise children and volunteer with all their various extracurriculars are not valued in the workplace either. I thought having all the experience would be valued. I have a college degree, a teacher's license, and volunteered for 20 years. My line is, "If I did all that for free, imagine what I can do with pay!" Not one interview.
Women need to support each other. We will make so many different choices while each striving to do our best. With the business and professional world shutting us out and controlling our pregnancies, we need to give each other what we may to keep us sane. We're the logical ones here. We deserve better.
2006-10-17 21:41:15 · answer #3 · answered by Dee M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i look at it like this. You and your husband or boyfriend chosed to have the baby not the company. If you cannot work because your pregnant then who's fault is that? Not the companies......... Besides most of the career women i know. The last thing there thinking about is having a baby or even a man on the side or boyfriend or husband ! ! ! !
2006-10-17 19:33:28 · answer #4 · answered by wj30_98 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do no longer think of its actual to fire somebody for identifying to purchase pregnant And no it has no longer something to do with promotions on the activity. it is a insurance subject and an afternoon out subject for the corporation. this continues to be a mans international and he's dropping floor to ladies persons who're smarter and in a great variety of situations do a extra effective activity and that's embarrassing to the male ego
2016-10-19 22:17:38 · answer #5 · answered by grewe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pregnancy is a part of life! women shouldn't be punished for doing what comes natural.
What makes it even more horrible, how is a pregnant woman going to provide for herself if she has no job!
2006-10-17 18:49:51 · answer #6 · answered by ♥starry_eyed_girl♥ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they dont.
But i think your mum should of been penalised for haveing such a sad excuse for life
2006-10-17 18:53:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't think that they could do this. Check with a lawyer.
But have you noticed that when the big bosses wives get pregnant the same does not apply for them!!!
2006-10-17 18:58:13 · answer #8 · answered by London Girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No ! Pregnancy is is the promise of life to come.
Some employers do get concerned ... but , then again, some employers are ignorant ... try to avoid them.
Jonnie
2006-10-17 18:45:14 · answer #9 · answered by Jonnie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
do you fail to grasp the basics of reprodutive biology? women don't get pregnant by themselves.
do men who sexually harrass women at work keep other men from getting promoted? or men who miss work or perform poorly due to excessive partying?
2006-10-17 18:47:04 · answer #10 · answered by answer faerie, V.T., A. M. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋