Staying Home

Yesterday I read a New York Times article about women (you must be registered to read the article. If you're not, it's easy to do) who attend elite colleges (i.e. Yale or Harvard) that are now changing their career paths to motherhood.

At Yale and other top colleges, women are being groomed to take their place in an ever more diverse professional elite. It is almost taken for granted that, just as they make up half the students at these institutions, they will move into leadership roles on an equal basis with their male classmates. There is just one problem with this scenario: many of these women say that is not what they want.

This is a good sign and I'm glad that more and more women want to stay home.

"It really does raise this question for all of us and for the country: when we work so hard to open academics and other opportunities for women, what kind of return do we expect to get for that?" said Marlyn McGrath Lewis, director of undergraduate admissions at Harvard, who served as dean for coeducation in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

These women worked hard to give us a choice, and I'm choosing home just like my mom has done. If I do go to college, I definately will not put my career ahead of children. Furthermore, I will be home educating them. Not sending them off to public schools. I'll bet most of these women will send their children off to public schools once they're of age. I, for one, will not be doing so.