Women - with kids - not at the office

Or at least not full time. Or at least not if the men work full time. Or at least very, very rarely so. In Germany at least. In coherent sentences: I have given my application decision not to mention the kids some thought over the past three weeks at the office. Would they have taken me if I had "come out" then? Answer: 90  percent no. Not because my colleauges are bad people, but simply because a full-time job - requiring some extra hours and dedication to pull it through on such a low salary - is not quite family compatible. I haven't come across many parents (partly because the institution has lots of young employees). I can only afford our babysitter to cover afternoons and a whole bunch of sick days so far (again, as I type this week) because my husband earns well enough to cover parts of this - and the rest of our life! It's really sad. Not for me, because I have my kids.But what about those women who sit at the office, in their prime concieving years, who are giving the issue of children some thought, but see the reality of most jobs these days (and this is an NGO!). There's something so rotten in this whole system, and I am so lucky - and grateful - that I can work anyway, despite all the odds. (Still, let's see how long this works!)