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> Guys can spend their 20s, 30s, and even 40s working nights and weekends to build the foundations of a successful company, with the goal of starting a family after they've 'made it'.

That sounds as a sexist stereotype. Do you have statistics that this actually represent the norm for CEO's?

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Biology plays a factor - bearing children becomes more dangerous for both mother and child after the late 30s.

Yes, but not everyone want or decide to have children.

Simply claiming that because men can wait after they've 'made it', doesn't mean that every man on every continent will do it. That what I asked for, statistics that prove that men actually do it: wait until they've 'made it' to form families.

Or is "Biology" proof enough, and anyone who ask for evidence that stereotypes actually is the norm is simply being disruptive to the discussion?

He's referring to the fact that women can't re-produce after a certain age. Also, the risk for complications at later-ages is a factor.

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