By Pepper of the Daily Pepper
The New York Times profiled young women with bright futures, all going to Ivy League colleges. Normally, college freshmen have no idea what they want to do with their lives, but these women know exactly what they want.
They want to be full-time mothers.
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.
Not that there's anything wrong with that (said with a dash of "Seinfeld"). Being a parent is rewarding for many people, but these women are making dangerous assumptions that are limiting their options AND the options of their children. List of said assumptions after the jump ...
