What do men want?

[Sundae]

Female colleagues of mine, from far further up their various career-ladders have told me that one of their biggest considerations when it came to choosing said path was taking future children into consideration. I mean they were thinking about it even before they went to Uni.

This includes pharmacists and lawyers, and both of these professions need to keep learning and training and staying up to date on recent developments for as long as they are working. Male colleagues in general still have a good chance of being looked after at home. Laundry done for them, meals cooked, house cleaned and still able to go to work when the children are ill. With no need to work part-time they are able to progress further and faster. Amen bring home the bacon, but who shovels the pigshit?

Not me. I get to work part-time even without children. Yay.
Hmmmm. Okay, I'm not a good advert.

Anyway I'm not saying that planning for children is specifically girl-thinking. Not at all. The majority of straight people work on the assumption that they will procreate. I'm just saying that the choice of career involves gender in many ways which do not involve brain development at all.