Especially when the job involves late-night meetings and business conferences that involve traveling to many parts of the world and having to share a hotel room. The fear of sexual misconduct is a valid concern, but also a fear that a woman with a child may have to cancel her trip at the last moment to take care of her family rather than choose to continue on with the flight to the meeting or conference. A business would be hard pressed to find a replacement on such short notice, so instead of taking the risk or creating a backup solution, they typically choose the childless female or another male. This should become a smaller problem over time, as younger men used to coed dorms and female roommates become managers. It may be possible that male managers fear that a female employee for promotion, however capable, will be more distracted by family matters than a male would be. They might assume that women are less able to handle competition and pressure. However, this fear is also assumed by female managers as
Especially when the job involves late-night meetings and business conferences that involve traveling to many parts of the world and having to share a hotel room. The fear of sexual misconduct is a valid concern, but also a fear that a woman with a child may have to cancel her trip at the last moment to take care of her family rather than choose to continue on with the flight to the meeting or conference. A business would be hard pressed to find a replacement on such short notice, so instead of taking the risk or creating a backup solution, they typically choose the childless female or another male. This should become a smaller problem over time, as younger men used to coed dorms and female roommates become managers. It may be possible that male managers fear that a female employee for promotion, however capable, will be more distracted by family matters than a male would be. They might assume that women are less able to handle competition and pressure. However, this fear is also assumed by female managers as