Let's take a look . . . Actually, prime-time television is a pretty nice place for a working woman to be. Most hold high-paying, professional jobs. Few have family responsibilities that ever interfere with their work. For TV women, those are not problems.
Child care is always available - and reliable.
Elder care responsibilities barely exist. And the house somehow always looks neat. No wonder more than four in five Americans we polled in May told us that almost no TV families are like their own. In part, Americans look to television for fantasy and escape. Most of us wish our work and family lives co-existed more easily than they really do.