The work mystique, as any working stiff knows, isn't all it's cracked up to be. Getting to the top is difficult. Once she arrives, the treadmill accelerates. The higher up she goes, the less personal power a woman has for enjoying her life. A growing number of women want a different kind of power in their lives, says Ms. Buckingham power to control their time, to feel safe and to reduce tension.
Women understand well the difficulty of finding a good man.
There's always a new generation of nubile young women coming on. They listen closely to the ticking of their biological clocks as they watch their older sisters struggling to get pregnant. These wistful women believe there will be an expanding job market when they choose to return to the working world later. The baby boomers will retire, probably about the time women of Generation X and Y women return to the job market. Some men, spoiled and soft, will resent taking on a full-time breadwinner role.