Where have all the women gone?

It's a dismal reality when the workplace still cannot accommodate, without penalty, the fact that women have babies. The recent studies by the Law Society of Upper Canada reveal a gender gap in salaries and, even more troubling, the huge sacrifices women make to stay in the game. Turns out they get married less and have fewer children than men in their profession.

No wonder. When women do have chlldren and thus "work-life" issues, they are then perceived with enough wariness by their bosses that, according to a U.S. management journal, they are often passed over for promotion.

What happened to the workplace that was supposed to take families into account? And what became of the men who were to champion these family issues because they understood that equality meant you didn't penalize a gender for a biological function?

No wonder, in law anyway, women are leaving the profession in droves. What a waste of training and education, simply because there are so few at the top (need I say male?) enlightened enough to see that their blinkered view of work is costing them talent and money.