This is VERY narrow minded, and, to be honest, somewhat insulting.
You suggest that "time at work" and "family" are the only important things
to women.
First off, "working too many hours", and "too much travel" are
considerably MORE onerous when you DON'T have a family to back you up -
especially if you have a house to be maintained, animals to be fed and
exercised, and so on.
If you have a family, they can pick up some of the slack when you have to
work late or travel. If not, you have to struggle to find a pet sitter
and so forth.
Furthermore, many of us have extensive non-family commitments outside of
work - serious (time consuming) hobby's and competitions, volunteer
organizations for which we are part of the management team, to say nothing
of exercise and sleep.
No! "too much travel and too many hours" is NOT "pretty much the same" as
"takes time away from family".
Janet
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From: Yoav Nir <ynir(_at_)checkpoint(_dot_)com>
And then this:
Among the common factors that women cited as their reasons for leaving
the profession were too much travel, working too many hours, lack of real
or perceived opportunities for advancement, and uncivil work environments
where women were treated in condescending or patronizing manners. Only 25
percent of the women who left engineering did so for family reasons.
So on the one hand they claim that women are not leaving to take care of
their families, but on the other the first two correct reasons they
mention are too much travel and too many hours. I think these two are
pretty much the same, and the primary reason why someone (male or female)
would object to travel and long hours is because it takes time away from
family.