So I shouldn’t be concerned at all that if I hire this person, she is going to need a leave of absence soon?
You should show the same amount of concern as you do with your other candidates may need to do this. Husbands with eight-month-pregnant wives, lesbian moms with eight-month-pregnant wives. Dive right on in to those deeply personal questions. Er, maybe no.
This isn’t really a helpful answer. I applaud Warbler’s effort to learn on this topic, but this answer doesn’t really help to give him a better understanding of the situation. What should Warbler do? Ideally, the answer should be more specific than “Er, maybe no.”
The post is also weird on a writing-organizational level. Going straight from “Dive right on in to those deeply personal questions,” to “Er, maybe no.” is unclear and hard to understand. Those two are not great sentences.
Just as a (late) follow-up, I was getting too wrapped up in the larger conversation, trying to get people to think about exactly why they’re asking what they’re asking, instead of just simply answering it. Not my finest, no.
This is more useful info: http://employment.findlaw.com/hiring-process/illegal-interview-questions-and-female-applicants.html