Career doom

While I may be forging a reasonable path through the murky world of freelance journalism - my latest piece was in the Indy yesterday - Peter Wilby's doom and gloom on the front page of today's MediaGuardian has rather depressed me. It cannot be denied that most newsrooms I have set foot in have been rather heavy on the boys but I did not expect anyone to openly say that women will struggle to get ahead in journalism in this day and age.
However, Brown's plans to force employers to provide more flexible working hours for mothers is not the answer. All it will do is make women seem less employable and anyone will active ovaries will seem like a flight-risk. Additionally, co-workers will not want to work with women who have children because they will be obliged to work the anti-social hours that mothers don't have to. All this will lead to further hostility towards women with children and women 'at risk' of having children.
While women should by no means be punished for having children and forced to stay at home darning shocks, nor should childless workers be left to pick up their slack.