Too sexist for my T-shirt: This gender inequality question is a non-runner

SO you’re going for a job interview.

You’re female, and halfway through, the HR recruiter asks you if you’re planning to have babies and, if so, how many.

It couldn’t happen under present law, but if Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, has her way, it will be the Next Big Thing. Anyone selecting new employees for their company should, she holds, be permitted to ask such questions. We need, she says, to have “a much more open dialogue about gender”.