As if the impact of working women hasn't already had drastic, corrosive effects on the family and the culture, consider this -- a Financial Times story about the dramatic effects of the recession suggests that "women could soon overtake men as the majority of the US labour force.""...Men have been disproportionately hurt because they dominate those industries that have been crushed: nine in every 10 construction workers are male, as are seven in every 10 manufacturing workers. These two sectors alone have lost almost 2.5m jobs. Women, in contrast, tend to hold more cyclically stable jobs and make up 75 per cent of the most insulated sectors of all: education and healthcare..."
It's impossible to read this and not remember one of G.K.Chesterton's most famous quotations, "Twenty million young women rose to their feet with the cry, 'We will not be dictated to!' and then proceeded to become stenographers."