I Want to Be a Stay-At-Home Mom

Well! Would you look at the jewel of an article I just found in the NYTimes?

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.

Alright, so the article focuses on women in Ivy League schools (something of which Hunter surely is not), but they do this mainly because they assume that women in ivy league schools will marry men who will be capable of providing for their families, which is unlike women who go to, for example, public schools, who'll probably have to work just to make ends meet.

Much attention has been focused on career women who leave the work force to rear children. What seems to be changing is that while many women in college two or three decades ago expected to have full-time careers, their daughters, while still in college, say they have already decided to suspend or end their careers when they have children.

Yes! Yes! This is me! Thank you, NYTimes editor, for showing the world my ways are common!!!

What seems new is that while many of their mothers expected to have hard-charging careers, then scaled back their professional plans only after having children, the women of this generation expect their careers to take second place to child rearing.

Yes, I just pasted that in similar words a moment ago...

For most of the young women who responded to e-mail questions, a major factor shaping their attitudes seemed to be their experience with their own mothers, about three out of five of whom did not work at all, took several years off or worked only part time.

This reminds me of my 11th grade Shabbaton. Our mechanechet wanted us all to be working women so that we could support learning husbands. That wasn't something any of us found interest in (I think), but still, Friday night there was a panel discussion with four women who were leading the kind of lifestyle our teacher wanted us to want. One woman on the panel made the mistake of mocking stay-at-home moms saying something along the lines of, "women who don't work just spend their time shopping and getting their nails done." That woman was ripped to shreds.
Over half of my high school class had mothers who didn't work. For some of us, our mothers didn't go back to work until after our youngest siblings were in school. And what we saw were mothers who made sure to be home by 4 to wait at the corner for our youngest siblings to come home (most of us had siblings around our own age, so we had walking buddies :)), mothers who would shop for us and have clothing waiting on our beds for when we'd get home, etc. And we had nothing but respect for them.