If a young female lawyer or banker on a promising career track decides to leave the office “early” every day to be home with her kids for dinner, work part-time, or take time out to be a full-time caregiver, she is quickly knocked out of the competition for top jobs. And if she decides to devote herself to full-time caregiving, that time becomes a black mark on her résumé, a hole that she must vainly try to hide or explain away if and when she tries to re-enter the job market.
但如果职业女性选择这条道路，她们的职业发展前景就会彻底遇阻。如果有着诱人职业前景的一位年轻女律师或银行家决定每天“提早”离开办公室、回家陪孩子共进晚餐、或者她决定从事兼职工作或抽时间成为全职“照顾者”，她很快就会被淘汰出对高层职位的竞争。如果她决定成为全职主妇，那段时间就会成为她简历上的一个污点，在重返就业市场时她必须对此进行隐瞒或徒劳地试图做出解释。