“When talliea are taken, companies wind up wondering why 99 percent of their senior employees ae white men. Then they blame us – accusing women, for example, of having “opted out” to take care of their children. But in many cases I knew about, women left because they were sick of all the boorish ice-cream licking, real and metaphorical, not because they were seized by a sudden overpowering desire to take their babies to Gymboree class.”

“When talliea are taken, companies wind up wondering why 99 percent of their senior employees ae white men. Then they blame us – accusing women, for example, of having “opted out” to take care of their children. But in many cases I knew about, women left because they were sick of all the boorish ice-cream licking, real and metaphorical, not because they were seized by a sudden overpowering desire to take their babies to Gymboree class.”

— Ellen Pao