Wine and Geekery

In some jobs, being single and childless is the best possible thing you can be if you’re female, because you’re perceived to have a killer combination of a responsible personality but no demands at home to tax your time. In other jobs, however, being single and childless is perceived as “weird” and can hurt you. In my experience, being single and childless in an administrative job means you have to take on more of the work so the mothers can leave early to pick up their kids, but doing that extra work often doesn’t translate into more respect or more money. But being able to give more to your job in the more competitive professional world outweighs people’s distrust of the single, childless woman for being “weird”, and can help you climb the ladder.