Companies Must Adopt Family-Friendly Policies For the past 30 years, women have been under pressure to prove that they can be just like men in the workplace. Mainstream feminist groups believed this was the way to achieve workplace equality. Thus began mainstream feminist support for abortion: eliminating pregnancy made women more like men. At first, this tactic seemed to work. Women have proceeded to break down barriers and move closer to equality. The November 27, 2000 issue of Business Week states that 45 percent of all management positions in the United States are held by women, and the World Bank's development indicators for 2000 show average female labor force participation above 40%. Yet women are far from equally represented at all levels in the workplace - Hewlett Packard's Carleton "Carly" Fiorina is the only female CEO on Forbes magazine's list of the top 100 companies - and issues such as sexual harassment and Gender discrimination still represents real obstacles for too many people. women at work. Those who have families feel they can be penalized even more. In a survey conducted as part of a Wall Street Journal study, 36% of respondents with children at home feared missing out on career advancement while on maternity leave. Mainstream feminist organizations thought these problems would be solved with abortion, but abortion doesn't help women. who choose to have children. “The workplace is still set up, to a large extent, for workers who don't have childcare responsibilities,” says Serrin Foster, president of the FFL. “Now, nearly three decades after Roe v. Wade, women are challenging the idea of ​​abortion as a solution to workplace inequality, and instead demanding working conditions that don't force them to choose between… middle paper ......and assistance when working from home. It may be worth investing in maintaining professional skills and contacts and avoiding falling too far behind in the traditional career path. Parents say they want childcare a affordable and flexible working hours, family-friendly tax reform, more leave time for both mothers and fathers and more part-time work options remains to be seen for both men and women will continue, or if it has blocked abortion as the “answer.” Even a century ago struggling workers facing the challenge of work and family often succumbed to the pressure exerted by abortion, Emma Goldman. wrote in Mother Earth in 1911: "So great is the poverty of the working classes that for every hundred pregnancies seventeen abortions are committed." Certainly in the new millennium we can do better.