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In most cases, I don't think these non-CEO degree-having women are being oppressed by society's view of who should do the child rearing so much as taking advantage of it. There's nothing wrong with choice and opportunity, and if these choices are not actually choices but are dictated by tradition, then the men are getting a raw deal, too. I wonder how many men would love to be able to work part-time and spend more time with their kids/hobbies/puttering-around-the-house, if they had a CEO/partner wife to maintain the income. In that respect, I agree with some of Hirshman's directives to break the molds and level the playing fields. My anecdotal evidence is that this is already going on in individual families, and that's really the only place where such personal decisions should be made. Isn't it?
