Workplace discrimination against women, especially those with any sort of care-giving responsibilities, can be subtle.

But sometimes it’s so obvious, all you can do is shake your head like Scooby-Doo and say, “RUH??”

That’s what lawyer Alyson Kirleis found herself confronted with as a shareholder in a Pittsburgh law firm. But instead of seeing her firm responsibilities grow as as one of the firm’s owners, they started to shrink — partly because she says her more senior male counterparts thought she was spending too much time at the office and not enough time taking care of her two children.
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