[Jare]

In countries such as Canada or the US it is effectively illegal to ask any personal questions in a job interview (religion, age, social & family status, ideology). In Spain those kinds of things are the first questions a woman gets asked, and for most common jobs, children (present or future) in practice mean she won't get the job. I am not aware of any restrictions that discourage this practice or allow her to safely refuse to answer.

I know of at least one employer who privately boasts that when he needs to hire a woman, he will only hire a lesbian, to avoid this issue altogether.

[wazoox]

> when he needs to hire a woman, he will only hire a lesbian, to avoid this issue altogether.

What a moron. Lesbians have children too. From my own anecdotal information on this, about in the same proportion as heterosexual women.

[burgerbrain]

I don't think it is fair to call somebody a moron for being unfamiliar with a topic that has, in many countries, been "neither seen nor heard" until quite recently.

He is certainly incorrect, but a moron? No, he needs correcting, not insulting.

[dextorious]

Not in all places of the world. In a lot of places they won't even admit publicly that they are lesbians...