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The book spend an ENORMOUS amount of time talking about the trials and tribulations faced by women with children quite as if, the concept of female was entirely interchangeable with mother. I got the impression that women who do not have children are quite as invisible to this author as she claims women on the whole are to most men. When the author started advocating 12 month maternity leave for mother only I gave up on it. What about those individuals with minor or moderate physical disabilities who would also benefit from parking closer to the building, and more paid time away from the job to tend to their very REAL healthcare needs, these women and men are clearly invisible to this author, I work in a hospital and from what I have observed the out of all the departments in the hospital, including outpatient surgery, the OB has the healthiest patients and one of the lowest mortality rates, so why does a two day stay in the OB garner a minimum of 6 weeks paid leave when end stage renal disease gives you four days a year tops before you have to be back to work? It sound great to say that women should have 12 months off to spend with their new children, but don't these children have fathers wouldn't the fathers like to spend some time with them as well? The author merrily ignores the co-workers of the new parents who are routinely "asked" to cancel vacations sacrifice time with their families and freinds and put their personal lives on hold to contribute to this state of maternal bliss, the childless, the elderly who are past childbearing and might want to start cutting back the hours a day they work or who are already partially retired are invisible non-entities in this model that elevates motherhood to goddess like status in the workplace. This book has it's own bias similar to that which I have observed to often in the medical profession, when it says "woman" it means uterus, breasts, and children, and not the people who make up the female half of the population, some of whom will not have uteri, some of whom will not have breasts, and many of whom will not have young children.