"Who gets the best vacation time, who is expected to work holidays and stay late to cover for others is often the single people because it is assumed you don't have a life. But with more and more and more singles in the workplace, things are changing."
To illustrate the point, she recalled the minor dust-up that Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell caused in 2008 when he said that Janet Napolitano, then Obama's nominee for Homeland Security secretary, was a good fit for the position "because, for that job, you have to have no life. Janet has no family. Perfect. She can devote, literally, 19 to 20 hours a day to it."