Absolutely right, it's not practical to be more accommodating towards working mothers and so it's very doubtful that they will get the floods of female applicants they seem to be looking for right now.
But (cost of training issues aside for a moment) if they put more effort into educating youngsters, maybe in future they'd start getting more applications from female school leaver candidates. That might help balance things out somewhat, at least until maternity leave age!
Last edited by Littlest Hobo; 16th Feb 2016 at 13:00.
Reason: To make sense