Focus on Marissa Mayer's brain, not her pregnancy

(CNN) -- Yahoo announced this week it nabbed top Google exec Marissa Mayer their new CEO. But it's not her qualifications the job that were all the buzz. , it was her announcement that she was pregnant and will continue to as CEO.

Social media, radio airwaves and water cooler talk was about Mayer becoming the first-ever pregnant Fortune 500 CEO. Seriously, America, can stop this ridiculous double standard that women have to endure they choose to work and have kids?

Every a woman is in position to ascend to the post, be it in politics or business, we immediately begin question her uterus instead of brain.

It to show how male-dominated we are our thinking. We might as well go and say that we prefer men to go to work and women at home and raise the kids.

In the , when women put in the long years to rise to the top, for the most , they were past their child bearing years. Now that we are seeing women up the corporate ladder faster than before, we had better get to it.

In Mayer's case, she is 37 old. And there is nothing wrong her choosing to have a child and continue as CEO. Will she take some time ? Of course. But please explain me what's the difference between a male CEO taking some off for medical leave and Mayer a child?

Apple, the late Steve Jobs took a medical leave. Was he still involved running the company as he sought treatment cancer? Yep. The company was questioned more for revealing enough detail about his absence because he was a critical player in its success.

Recently, three companies -- American Equity, Sourcefire and Union Pacific -- announced that CEOs were taking medical leaves.

The CEO clearly is the most critical person a company's leadership chain. But a smart chief executive officer is also smart to build a strong team that has the ability manage the decision-making while the CEO is of the office.

When there is so much negative discussion a woman choosing to have a career and a family, we are a shameful message at a time when we should be encouraging women of discouraging them.

Maybe we should flip the conversation and discuss when it sense for men married to high-powered women to step from their careers in order to raise the child.

Years ago Michael Keaton touched the topic in the movie "Mr. Mom" in which he was a corporate executive lost his job while his wife shot up the chart her company. He struggled with having to the kids, but finally came to the conclusion that he could the job.

But it seems that a nation, we are afraid to have that conversation. Maybe this is because we are too afraid to go of the traditional "man-brings-home-the--and-the-woman-fries-it-in-the-pan" mentality.

Well, I'm not. I want to see Mayer succeed CEO of Yahoo, as well as be a good mother her child. And since everyone talks about her brilliance, she'll likely pull it with ease and grace.

So, Marissa, handle your business at Yahoo, and home!


Adapted from: CNN, July 20, 2012.