No sweat.  I've just read a lot about women's issues over the years and I think it very often gets short shrift.  Even if women are 'more arrogant and self aggrandizing' or 'better at overcoming impostor syndrome'...or whatever the issue is here... That whole baby-bearing thing tends to trip them up.  I've been close to some women who didn't initially have any particular plans to settle down and have kids and were all too happy to pursue life in a man's world on the terms offered.  They did very well -- until they had a baby.  Then it all came crashing down and they wound up enormously frustrated with their lives and bewildered at their inability to escape the fate of so many women that they thought for a time they had already escaped.<p>In contrast, European women have generally faired better than American women.  Historically, they didn't fight for "rights".  Instead, they worked for support and assistance for the burden of bearing and raising their kids.  Getting that has allowed women in some European countries to close the wage gap to some extent and to do a better job of balancing career and family.  They also generally have more family support and lower divorce rates.  The typical historical American attitude of "Don't tread on me" (and the general F... You attitude that goes with it) works okay until you have a baby and then <i>need</i> community support of some sort.  Then bitchy positions about not needing a man (or anyone else) suddenly don't work so well.<p>Um, I'll just stop here.  Consider it a pet topic of mine.  Okay? :)