Yahoo's New CEO Mayer Is Pregnant: Does That Matter?

Yum why is this news. Women get preggers... what's new? Is it supposed to be shocking because she's a CEO?

Yes it means that GOD the Creator of all things, it means she will have a child, baby and the planned parenthoods call these created little humans like to get rid of them. Many of
the people use the word "fetus" which means "little one or offspring"! Children are a blessing from GOD (YAHWAH)!

Why on earth should it matter? I guess some conservative person came up with this one. Many(most) of you are against abortion, but you don't want to give pregnant women jobs.

Anyone being honest understands this....

This is great, to make a point: Stop discrimination against pregnant women in the workforce.

No, it doesn't at all. Congratulations Marissa Mayer!

Ummm, duh, yes, it matters. How stupid does a company have to be to hire a new CEO that's going to have to be leaving in a few months time, for a couple of months anyway? For any reason, not just pregnancy!

What, this was the ONLY person in the world they could hire as CEO at this point in time?

If anyone has Yahoo stock, now may be the time to dump it, this company ain't gonna be around for the long haul!

...... How is that relevant?... Like at all? -.-

why is this a question? I don't understand.

Doesn't matter one bit, it's her life and Yahoo's business...she is better looking than the last CEO for sure...

Obviously it matters, she's going to need maternity leave and there will be a lot of times where she will be busy you know... having a baby. It's not necessarily a bad thing but next time you choose a CEO they should probably be done having kids (even have kids out of the house).

But shes a hot babe!

yep, she certainly is!

I wouldn't think a company would want to hire a CEO who was going to be taking a significant amount of time off just a few months after being hired.

Yeah, really! It's amazing how many brainwashed zombies here say "Duuhhh, no, it don't matter, so what she's pregnant, that's her choice."

NOT the point, dingbats!!!

Right. It has nothing to do with a woman's ability to be a mother and have a career

Congrats to her, hope she has a healthy kid.

Why should it? Women have been birthing since God created them. No big deal.

Why would it matter?

In theory I would like to say no, but the truth is that having an infant is a MAJOR distraction/ responsibility - I don't care who you are,...and with Marissa having to log 100 hour weeks - this will cause undue stress. She's a 37 year old first time CEO with a ton of pressure on her...Maybe she can pull it all off, but it certainly matters

Can still do the job

when she is ready to deal with whats to come then she will be ready but not right now

I think it's great ... Congratulations to the Mayers ... when you have kids it makes the future results of your decisions much more important

The Board of Directors hired her like that so it isn't a surprise.

No. Google says she should take the full 3 months off.

What about when the child is born? What about the first couple years of the babies life when the baby needs to nursed, changed, etc? Great... shes successful... but what about the child? Just gonna throw it in a day care for someone else to worry about?

Just like everyone that will be her choice. The leaders at Google hopes she takes weeks off at a time to spend with her child so they can bury Yahoo.

If she has the skills to fix things, no doubt breast feeding in the corporate office will make front page news at yahoo, or they will start a new thing, MILF's in the workplace, how to avoid Sexual harassment lawsuits.

LOL

Apparently not....she was hired....

I realize it is wrong to say, but I wouldn't hire a pregnant woman (which, yes, it is illegal to not on the basis of that) and not just because in my line of work with nuclear fuels you are exposed to radiation and there are real concerns of fetal complications.



I think that a woman with a family will take more time off than a woman without a husband/wife and without kids - they can work more, stay later, come in earlier, and not have to take weekends off or have evenings when a kid has a play and they can't work.



I work at least 20 hours a day 7 days a week, it wouldn't be right for a woman with a kid to do that (or healthy for a pregnant woman). I will caveat by saying that if her significant other is a stay at home parent it isn't as bad after having the kid.

hey, an honest answer. Nice job. It's good to see some honesty at SH.

20 hours a day, 7 days a week? HOW and WHY? How much sleep do you get a day, 1 hour?

I love my career, there isn't anything else I want to do except work haha cat-naps through the day, adding to about 3 hours (sometimes less sometimes more, depends on how much there is to do).

You're 16 you don't work 20 hours a day 7 days a week, that is illegal. Plus to work with radiation you have to be of age. You're not even old enough to understand what a woman especially a mother is capable of.

I'm emancipated and a graduate student working with naval nuclear propulsions, nuclear fuels, and various spectroscopic techniques revolving around renewable energy; my age has no bearing on my career or my life and, while I understand the assumption, I will say that I don't appreciate it.
I just don't think it would be a good thing to do as a mother since she wouldn't be able to spend as much time with her child, even with her child she would very likely be e-mailing and taking phone calls. I'm not saying it isn't at all possible, but am saying it would matter to me if I were making the deal.

Oh, right, I almost forgot, having children makes you incapable of working. I understand the last few months of the pregnancy when it's difficult to stand up, but from that video down there she can't be more than a few weeks in.

Unless she is not sure who the father is... does she know bubba bill? bark