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If we had a cohesive community with racial loyalty above all other loyalties then employers would want to keep our women involved in this community and we would all be flexible around each others' strengths and needs. Any woman who felt her pregnancy/child care really did affect her ability to perform her job would happily relinquish it and know full well that there'd be other options for her, options valued by her people. Women today are regularly given the message that caring for their own child at the expense of working makes them a 'lesser mortal'. We're all also subjected to such insane financial commitments that two incomes are barely enough!

Some pregnancies are worse than others and some jobs are not for a pregnant woman to perform - if everyone trusted each other and worked together in a completely fair and balanced system all would be well. Some jobs do not really need you to be on-site either - they can be done from home in intermittent bursts around caring for a newborn - this keeps the woman feeling happy as she's still getting some intellectual stimulation and is involved in her community.

Also, if women knew they could return to some intellectually stimulating work as it became more and more possible for them around child care as their child increasingly needed social interraction and less one-on-one with their mother, then they'd be less frantic about desperately hanging on to a specific role during the period of time in which child care is incredibly intense for mothers.
If it wasn't the case that if you take time out you lose your professional registrations/certification etc then this would be more possible as well!
I could go on all day with suggestions to solve this issue.........