I tend to read things like Because women are more affected by family responsibilities as Because we live in a society that rewards shitty parenting on the part of men and demonizes women who don't spend all their time cooing over their pwecious widdle darlings, but this reporter is too damn lazy/asinine/wallowing in his privilege/taking care of her children/ignorant to challenge the sociological phenomenon, we will repeat the cockeyed notion that women are somehow essentially more responsible for "family responsibilities," whatever the fuck that means, than men are.

Not that I'm bitter or anything. And certainly my bitterness can't have anything to do with the (white, male) coworker who assured me that I will be a worse engineer after my wedding, because I will have to cook and clean for my future husband instead of staying on top of developments in the field.

Feh.