By Fatima Calderon I mean this post as an actual question to (any) readers. In a former job I asked my female boss to let me work more from home. She gave me a resounding no . This is a job where I had been consistently improving sales performance for the whole company during the previous five years. My bosses had frequently praised me for my work and productivity. And this was a boss who herself had taken A LOT of time off and had worked from home too