re: For every 100 women. . .

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You can be educated and have a career and also be a good wife and mother.

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No matter how you cut it, if you were competing for a promotion against an equally qualified and competent woman who didn't have kids, she'd almost always beat you out.

You can have a career and be a mom, but there are sacrifices/limitations because you're spreading your time around.

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Well yes, not 100% of women have the bio urge. Some women are gay, some women are asexual. I am excluding those from this. What I meant was hetero-normative women. And they all have it, or they reject it. Of the women that reject it, and pursue career over family, they have some of the highest suicide rates from 55+. I am at work right now, so can't link the studies, but they are pretty clear.

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I believe you on the unhappiness and suicide, I do think many women who pursue careers over everything else often end up regretting that decision.

But I disagree with the bolded part. A lot of hetero-normative women have that urge but not all. They'd be abnormal in the sense that they differ from the norm. There are always abnormal representatives in every demographic that break the norm.

Better check that male privilege

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if you were competing for a promotion against an equally qualified and competent woman who didn't have kids, she'd almost always beat you out.

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so you think motherhood makes a woman less able in the corporate world...

Besides, how would a company know intimate details of your family life?

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so you think motherhood makes a woman less able in the corporate world...

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I think having non-job related responsibilities takes up time and energy that could be spent on your job.

Given that, someone who has more non-job related responsibilities will be at a disadvantage to someone who has less.

Is that hard to believe?

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Besides, how would a company know intimate details of your family life?

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Less production/willingness to work overtime/willingness to forgo vacations/willingness to relocate/etc.

Replace motherhood with an outdoors type who will take off a lot of work during deer season. It doesn't matter what the distraction is, the higher you expect to go in your career the less distractions you're allowed to have.

You're not going to be a fantastic mother/wife if you're a CEO of a large company. The same goes for men, too. It's just that there are a lot more men who are wired in such a way that they're willing to forgo family life for a career than there are women willing to do the same.

The idea that you can have both a fantastic career and still be a wonderful mother is sort of a lie. There's only 24 hours in a day. You can have a low demand job/part time position and be a good mother/wife, sure. But don't expect many promotions.

Statistics show affirmative action placements have a much lower GPA, Graduation rate, rate of passing state licensure exams for their profession, etc.

While I do not like affirmative action (its racist), they're not really competition for high end jobs. And if they are its because they've earned it - its because they've actually made the grades and passes the licensure exams.

I don't care about interracial relationships and marriages and neither should you.

I do care about our growing welfare state and the sort of behaviors it's encouraging.