“… we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men, for that matter, though in a different way) change as a result of having children, and often do care less about work”

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As a society, we’d do better to acknowledge the fact that women (and men, for that matter, though in a different way) change as a result of having children, and often do care less about work. And what’s wrong with that? Isn’t that why people have babies? To make life more meaningful? And, dare I say it, less focused on work?

Suzanne Venker, “Netflix’s New Parental Leave Policy Could Make Things Worse for Women”, Time.com (5 August 2015) [http://time.com/3986543/netflix-parental-leave-policy-women/]

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