Living here in New York City the streets are filled with professional women of all ages and ethnicities running to their offices so they can work 10-12 hours a day. Throw in commuting and you can add an additional hour+ (sometimes each way) to their day. I look at their faces and in their eyes and they do not seem.....happy.
A recent example made me wonder: a woman I know who went to college, graduated tops in her class, got a 100K+ year job on Wall Street and lives in a swank upscale apartment just got married. Her husband makes about the same as her. She is selling her apartment, quitting her job, they are moving out to New Jersey and she will be...staying at home to raise the kids. "I'm done with working, commuting, wasting my life to make other people money," she says.
Now that feminism has made its point - hey, women can do (almost) anything a man can do! - do most women today
want to work or would they prefer getting married, being "taken care of", raising the kids and letting hubby deal with the stress of a job? I say the latter.