I’ll get into trouble for airing this one. Many women would rather bury the topic. But if we’re sitting in a nice restaurant, downing our second or third cocktail, at some point one of us will say: “If I hear from another woman that it no longer makes sense for her to keep working and pay the babysitter, I will strangle her.”
What’s the verboten topic? Women aren’t always dropping out of high-pressure careers because of work/life balance difficulties; truth is, some dump the job because their husbands are making a boatload of money. And I mean a big boat. We’re not talking about the 1 percenters (that would only be $368,238), but more like the 0.01 percenters — in the seven-digit range. I know it seems like a caricature — that expensively educated women would retreat to the role of housewife (actually, penthousewife) as soon as their hubbies hit the jackpot. But haven’t we all seen this play out in big-law firms?
