“No married women allowed to work because they might leave the job to have a baby.”
As a pro-life supervisor of a small department I have mixed feelings about this; having to train someone else for a key position while holding that position for the absent employee is a hardship. I had an employee transfer from another department while concealing a pregnancy; she was hardly trained before she left on maternity leave. She returned but couldn’t juggle raising the child with a full-time job, which was just as well; she started missing work, coming in late/leaving early, etc. on a regular basis. Supervisors can’t be expected to rely on someone in that situation, and the law will make them hesitant to hire someone that might put them in that position.
I’ve had great female staff, and they were at least 50 years old; nowadays as fewer people have children this may be less of an issue.
When I worked in offices in NYC, women always got pregnant and left for long periods of time. I even remember one dame bringing her kid in and making her secretary baby sit. And nothing could be done! Of course, my reference to Alice was that she had to LIE to get a job. She had to deny her own marriage. I’m sure that really happened.