[jvvw]

But employers know that you might have children and if you are a woman that you will have a certain amount of time off work as a result. So they might choose to employ a man instead even if you don't plan to have children yourself. Obviously illegal in many jurisdictions but extremely hard to prove.

[zimablue]

This is more of a problem of our current system of maternity leave being company funded rather than publically funded which would actually solve this problem overnight.