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In today's mail, I just received my third "Juror Qualification Questionnaire" in the last 8 years.
The first one came when I was pregnant with my first child. I got a deferment of service so I wouldn't be sitting for jury duty while my daughter was less than 6 months old and exclusively nursing, which was the plan. I still had to get child care and plan other things to be able to go when I *was* scheduled. I went to a half-day of sitting around in a room at the courthouse, but did not get on a jury.
The second one came when I was pregnant with my second child. Again, when I got the actual summons, I asked for a deferment for reasons of childcare issues and also to avoid conflicting with my class schedule (I was a grad student in CS by that time). Not that you have to give a reason for the deferment request. That time, my number was not on the taped message they have you call the weekend before you're due to serve, so I didn't even have to go sit in a room for half a day.
If I'm pregnant now, I don't know it, and, in fact, I'd be pretty damn surprised. In all this time, my husband has not received a single jury duty qualification thingy. Are they skewing this for women somehow, on the theory that tapping women for jury duty is less disruptive to the economy because lots of women are SAHMs? If that's why, it's utter BS and would piss me off. But I guess it *could* be totally random, or maybe even related to the fact that I responded/showed up before, so I would likely be compliant about showing up again. In any case, J and I were laughing a lot about my receiving yet another questionnaire.
I wouldn't mind being on a jury. I'd find it really interesting, I expect. I'm a geek that way.
The first one came when I was pregnant with my first child. I got a deferment of service so I wouldn't be sitting for jury duty while my daughter was less than 6 months old and exclusively nursing, which was the plan. I still had to get child care and plan other things to be able to go when I *was* scheduled. I went to a half-day of sitting around in a room at the courthouse, but did not get on a jury.
The second one came when I was pregnant with my second child. Again, when I got the actual summons, I asked for a deferment for reasons of childcare issues and also to avoid conflicting with my class schedule (I was a grad student in CS by that time). Not that you have to give a reason for the deferment request. That time, my number was not on the taped message they have you call the weekend before you're due to serve, so I didn't even have to go sit in a room for half a day.
If I'm pregnant now, I don't know it, and, in fact, I'd be pretty damn surprised. In all this time, my husband has not received a single jury duty qualification thingy. Are they skewing this for women somehow, on the theory that tapping women for jury duty is less disruptive to the economy because lots of women are SAHMs? If that's why, it's utter BS and would piss me off. But I guess it *could* be totally random, or maybe even related to the fact that I responded/showed up before, so I would likely be compliant about showing up again. In any case, J and I were laughing a lot about my receiving yet another questionnaire.
I wouldn't mind being on a jury. I'd find it really interesting, I expect. I'm a geek that way.
