And she survived triumphantly, really. She reigned for a very long time. And she was the boss. It's a worse concern for women than for men. Realistically, however much men help with children, children are the problem of women, at least when they're little.
Children emotionally disrupt ambitious women.
If what you want to do as a woman is something that requires you to appear in court or be in a lab until an experiment has come to its end, it's much worse. Writing is one of the few things that women have been able to juggle with a sex life that led to children. I was talking to a gay friend the other day about this. He said his heterosexual friends were getting married and were closing off. I said, well sex for heterosexual women is so interesting because it always has the possibility of children, a portal to this other kind of love, which has to be so much longer lasting than sexual love need be.