Planning for Women

In school for Urban Planning it always bothered me that urban planning for women really was just planning for families. Women without families were largely ignored (except for the occasional night time security detail at a transit station mention) and I hated that that wasn't specified as planning for families, separate from planning for women. Sometimes (and more often now) men are the stay-at-home parent, if there is one, or the main caretaker of the children, so it really isn't planning for women, it's planning for children.

Women actually were the first computer scientists

But, this article, which is amazing, about Google's HR research to keep employees, is also focused on accommodating women who want to have children. Not that that isn't a problem, but there are so many more things to women, and men, that need to be planned to make everyone's life more comfortable. I do agree that extended maternity leave is AMAZING, I can only imagine how hard it would be to have to only take a couple weeks off after pushing a child out of your vagina... but, that's not the only thing. I like that Google is aiming to keep women around, but there's something more about making everyone happier to work there that will make women happier too.

However, I support Google for wanting to keep women around, we are all pretty amazing and companies should want to keep women around.