"Motherhood and career
advancement can be as difficult as juggling fire props while
riding a unicycle. There are some sound economic reasons for
credit unions to find ways to accommodate the biological imperative
of childbearing.
The trepidation that envelops this
issue arises not only from the reluctance to invade an employee’s
privacy, but from an aversion to igniting the emotion that pervades
the entire debate on whether motherhood and corporate advancement
are compatible. Much has been written about women’s inability
to scale the “glass ceiling”, their detours to the “mommy paths”
that often turn into dead ends, and their crashing against the
“mommy wall...
;...
The good news is that demographics
and economics may finally suck the life out of such anachronistic
attitudes and accomplish what feminism alone could not: a sharing
of adult responsibilities at work and home by adults of both
sexes. Attracting and retaining good help is already getting
difficult as the baby boomers start retiring. No company can
afford to dismiss half the population from its consideration
for the top jobs, especially when women are earning 60 percent
of all post secondary degrees in Canada and have been doing
so for the past decade."
by Laureen
Griffin