[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Livia

Why do some posts on this thread make it sounds like these companies are coercing women into having children late and making them freeze their eggs? Women aren't stupid, and I would imagine professional women least of all. The choice is theirs. Everyone's "imagining" what their contract looks like but no one knows, it's all supposition.

It's all very well giving birth and rushing back to work after having a baby but what happens when the baby's sick or there's some other kind of emergency? When something happens at work and everyone has to stay late or work a weekend? I'll tell you what happens, it's the people with no childcare issues who get to carry those people who need to get home in time for bathtime.

No one is forcing women to do this. Some women pay for this themselves so they can build their career before having a family, some work around it in other ways, so why do some people imagine they are all fools being coerced by big business? It's kind of insulting. And until the people who stay home and care for kids are 50% men, saying "it's not only women who have the kids" is irrelevant.The vast majority of people who stay home are women. You've only got to stand at the school gate to realise that.

Do you actually stand at school gates regularly Livia? I'm not meaning to sound smart by saying that but you would be surprised, I drop my kids to school, my husband collects them, from what I see at the school gates that's a common occurrence among families now a days, I see it with my friends who have kids and from my kids friends parents, most of them are both working and they work the childcare/collecting dropping from school between them