For all these gender garbage, and speculation whether she can handle the job, what she will do next, and those indignant that she is called to question - there is a simple benchmark to be used - Yahoo's share price and dividends.
99% of what is on CNN, CNBC and media is all noise.
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Letters: To break glass ceiling, also dispel dad stereotype
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USA TODAY's article "Pregnant CEO tests glass ceiling" adds to the problem it attempts to address. It says "women are still assumed to be the main caretakers of children" ("Pregnant Yahoo CEO ignites maternity debate"). I'm a part-time male physician who served as the primary caretaker for my two daughters. During my subsequent divorce from their mother, I was directly asked, "How can you take care of the girls while you are working?"
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Mayer: "My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it," she says.
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Mayer: "My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it," she says.
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Until people, and articles such as this one, stop assuming that women are the main caretakers of children, they cannot expect women to break the glass ceiling in the workplace.
Mark Shumate; Roswell, Ga.
Modify workplace environment
Since Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer, who recently announced she was pregnant, wants to stay in the "rhythm of things," it will be interesting to watch exactly what rhythm she feels as the baby develops and once the baby arrives.
I wish her success in helping establish work rhythms to better suit family life along with technical leadership and vision at Yahoo. Too often, we let work dominate our entire culture.
She has a unique opportunity to help show a better way, instead of simply conforming to current concepts.
Mary Collier; Beavercreek, Ohio
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Pregnancy will hinder CEO
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer went from poster child for breaking the final glass ceiling to being the poster child for why most women earn less than men.
There's no way a six-months pregnant woman can have the energy to work 10 to 14 hours per day, including many weekends, which is expected of a CEO at a top company.
Once her child is born, Mayer will have an easy decision to make. She is wealthy and has proved she is smart enough to become a Silicon Valley CEO. Why would she see a reason to turn her baby over to child care? Out the Yahoo door she will go and never look back.
Bob Munson; Newbury Park, Calif.
Questioning of Mayer disappointing
I was shocked that in 2012, USA TODAY published an article about a "heated debate" over whether a woman was capable of working after having a baby. Maybe we should all stay home, make cookies and watch reruns of Father Knows Best. What's next, questioning a woman's right to vote? A disappointing article to say the least. I say yahoo for Marissa Mayer and boo for USA TODAY.
Cynthia Galle; Madison, Conn.
