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The young woman who is in a hurry to get married and have children sounds so much like my mother. There is a better than even chance that she will end up on the same "junk heap" because the divorce rate is still over 50%.
The feminist movement of the 1970's began with daughters who saw their mothers thrown away by guys like Mr. Ross. This generation of women lived for their families and when their kids grew up and their husbands left them for younger women, they had nothing to fall back on. The "old man" was gone. Their job skills were totally stale and not marketable. Their sense of purpose was gone. The daughters vowed that they would never let that happen to them.
And now, their daughters want to go back to that time. I am incredulous.
Advanced degrees won't account for anything if the person holding them has had no significant work experience in the past year, much less the past 5 or 10 years.
I am now at an age of self-reflection. I am comfortable with most of the decisions that I made and my goal for what time I have left is to try to make the world a better place. Everything else is just so much BS.
