... In fact, this woman worked to rule around her childcare, took time off for every minor ailment of the child and looked very aggrieved when she got no pay rise that year.
I’m not hostile to work/life balance. I just believe that mothers who want to get ahead must work as hard as everyone else. I do it, so I don’t see why they can’t. Is that unreasonable?
Read what Lucy Kellaway, "agony-aunt" of the Financial Times (London), answered:
No, it’s not unreasonable in itself. Working mothers don’t deserve special treatment. If they are always dashing off to sports day and lurching from one childcare disaster to another they ought to progress more slowly as a result.