[cperciva]

It assumes that all women want to have children

Headlines omit qualifiers. If you read the headline as "Fewer women than men want to run startups because many of them would rather have children", I think it's entirely accurate. Sure, there are women who don't want children, just like there are men who want nothing more than to be stay-at-home dads -- but they're the exception, not the rule.

[lotharbot]

> Headlines omit qualifiers.

It wasn't just the headline. Example: "even the most child-oriented men are not as child-oriented as their wives." This line isn't merely lacking in qualifiers, it explicitly denies exceptions, saying that even outliers fit the stereotype.

(I happen to be one of the exceptions.)

[slantyyz]

Well, that headline is designed to get eyeballs.

It should have been headlined "Opinion: ...", as it's not like the article is full of research, etc.

[ashedryden]

This also assumes that having children means one or the other parent's job is to stay at home with them, which hasn't been true for a number of years because of the amount of money needed to sustain a family and the fact that women no longer need to give up their careers to have children.

[ashedryden]

I know tons of successful women who run businesses who are fine without having children; I also know quite a few who have children and are still able to run a business.

This whole argument goes back to the beginning of the feminist movement and people not being willing to hire women because they should be making some man sandwiches and popping out babies.

The trend is leaning towards more women having fewer children, if they are having them at all (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3...).

[notauser]

Just like almost everyone on HN, you are a statistical anomaly.

(This is nothing to do with you being a woman - that just increases the factor by an order of magnitude or two.)

Even the people you know are probably outliers. So you have to be a bit careful relying on your experience and instead look at broader demographic trends.

Nearly all of the people I know well have no TV. Should I assume that TV is hugely unpopular with everyone?

[pmichaud]

You'll get fewer downvotes if you respond to the article's specific claims that you have a problem with, using data from studies (and absolutely no anecdotes).