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   Harriet Monkhouse (harrietmonkhouse@mcr.wtf)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 02:38:15 JST Harriet Monkhouse

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   • Natasha Jay :mastodon:
   • BeeCycling

   @beecycling @Natasha_Jay I remember, on a computer industry magazine back in the 1980s, I had a (female) colleague who made a point of asking male interviewees (when known to have children) how they balanced work and family - and they did try to answer the question, though I'm afraid I can't remember any individual reply now.

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     BeeCycling (beecycling@romancelandia.club)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 02:38:17 JST BeeCycling

     • Natasha Jay :mastodon:

     @Natasha_Jay Good for her. There are plenty of neutral ways to ask the same thing. Like "How do you protect your writing time against the other demands on your time?" It's an issue for all writers, whatever their situation, everybody is busy. There is no need for that old sexist way of asking it.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.