I am writing in response to the coverage of the trend towards motherhood among Ivy League Women (Sept. 29). Nationwide, only 2 out of 9 supreme court justices -- most likely 1 of 9 soon if Justice O'Connor is not replaced by a woman, a few percent of CEOs at major companies, 14 percent of senators and only about a quarter of full professors are women. I worry that this is due in large part to the fact that significant numbers of women educated at the most elite colleges - the ones probably most likely to have such high-powered careers - are not working outside the home in their prime adult years.
When these highly-educated women make the decision to let their husbands off the hook and do most of the child-rearing and homemaking work themselves, they are inadvertently turning over most of the decision-making and leadership roles in society to a single gender. Wouldn't most people in modern times agree that a more equal gender balance in the workplace benefits society?
