She will work right to the very end of her pregnancy.
A 40-year-old woman announces she is pregnant with twins.
It’s a delightful occasion. A happy occasion. One that should be celebrated – the birth of two new beautiful babies.
So why are so many women around the world shaking their heads at this particular announcement?
Well, its not just any old 40-year-old woman.
It’s an extraordinarily rich and powerful woman, the CEO of one of the Internet giants. And it’s a woman whose working life, many mothers fear, sets the bar too high and the expectations too insurmountable for other working mums.
The chief executive of Yahoo Marissa Mayer made the announcement overnight via her blog that she’s pregnant with twin girls and due in December.
“With great happiness, Zack and I have some exciting news to share – I’m pregnant! In fact, I’m expecting identical twin girls, likely arriving in December,” she wrote.
“The twins part was quite a surprise, because I have no family history of twins or any other predisposing factors. However, as I’ve now learned, identical twins occur by random chance in roughly 1 out of approximately every 300 pregnancies.”
But it was this part that rattled the keyboards of many: “I plan to approach the pregnancy and delivery as I did with my son three years ago, taking limited time away and working throughout.”