Mom University

The feminist movement was about the right to choose. This NY Times Article discusses how young women today at some of the best colleges in the nation plan on eventually choosing family over career.

This isn't exactly news, as it's been the way since we were all sitting in caves watching the pictures on the walls instead of the pictures on the plasma screens. I think the bigger problem with this issue is that the choice of not working is thought of by many -- men and women alike -- as the lesser choice. Money is so highly celebrated that a woman that stays home, raises the children, cooks, cleans, etc. are considered inferior to a breadwinning husband.

The fact is making babies is hard and making those babies grow up into good people is even harder. To choose to stay home and take on this huge responsibility should be a more highly respected undertaking. It's just too bad that our society can rarely appreciate what cannot be quantified in dollars or stock options.

*Sidenote to Sarah Currie, a senior at Harvard, who said regarding men's approval of women's plans to stay home, "One of the guys was like, 'I think that's sexy.'" What? Do not go out with that guy! That kind of comment ranks him right up there with Asian fetish weirdos.