Monkey business

Switch

This picture reminds me what a luxury it is to have a light switch inside the bathroom as opposed to outside, which is common in Europe.

One of the major differences between Germany and the United States is that professional women can have children and still remain in the workforce. I see more than one example of that in my work group. There's a female partner with two children. She will be rejoining the team pretty soon after maternity leave. Then a senior manager has a young child and has returned to work. It's less of a taboo here I guess.

In Germany, women get called bad names like "Rabenmutter", which literally translates into raven mother, if they decide to return to work. I think Germany should change this type of mentality and seriously improve their child care system if they want to increase the birth rate. Or more German men could stay at home and take care of kids. Perhaps the family network could be leveraged more. Grandparents could take care of the bambini.