Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies
This area is really tough.  I feel terrible for women who experience this bias, but the solution is not nearly as obvious as with race&#x2F;gender&#x2F;age&#x2F;religious&#x2F;etc discrimination.  In those cases the answer is: stop being biased.<p>Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re a small company and you can really only afford to have &lt;10 people on your payroll.  Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re considering two candidates of exactly equal skills and age: a 28yo man and a 28yo woman.<p>Even if they both plan to have 2 kids in the next 4 years, it&#x27;s a biological reality that it will take the woman away from work for longer.  She has the 9 months of pregnancy where she may be tired or uncomfortable, then the actual delivery, then recovery, and then often a period of breast feeding.  The man could be father of the century but there are certain burdens that fall on women because of their sex.<p>So while I&#x27;d like to force the startup to make the decision without considering this factor, is that always reasonable?<p>And before the downvotes come: I am really on the side of pregnant women here.  I want them to get generous leave without any effect on their careers. But I am questioning if that is always possible.