Seriously? Until women "control the game" they won't be happy? Vanna, I think Susan would like to buy a vowel.

Hasn't this same article been written a million times already? Susan, can't you bring anything deeper to this conversation? I don't believe it -- I don't even believe that you believe it. No reflection, no introspection, no questioning past idols, just the utterly predictable conclusion: more feminism! double the dosage! more feminism! Don't look now, but the world is passing you by.

"Facing workplaces that have failed to accommodate the demands of family, we adapt to them, rather than insisting that they adapt to us." Susan, this one liberal line says it all. Companies do not exist to adapt to families, they exist to make money. Having been up and down the corporate ladder I can assure you that with each promotion comes more expectations of time devoted to the company, along with more power and money. Long hours, travel, 24/7responses to blackberries that must always be on; this is what promotion in corporate America means. Women who pay this price succeed, those that do not, don't. You think it's tough here, try Japan or India. This is why both men and women turn down promotions. In many instances, it is just not worth it. It has nothing to do with gender; most women do not have the ego problems of men, and recognize that the cost benefit analysis just doesn't make any sense. Hummmm, which gender is smarter here?

Enough already with this same old song. Singing the 2009 version of the 1920's original “I Am A Victim Because Men are Mean To Me” is wearing thin. How about if you want to be at the top of a company as a woman, start one and quit expecting to be given something. Go out and get it on your on. Be a leader in motivating women to create and excel instead of waiting for another hand out. Get real, Susan. It is another one of those “Choice Issues” that you so cherish as a crutch.

Women can do the job. Hell they proved that as pioneers when the Conestoga wagon went west to California. More women made it than men who were just to weak for the trail. Women are survivors. Not much has changed over the years except our perception of women and their ability to do the job. But one thing has distanced men from women over the decades and that is the ability to start up companies. Women trail badly in this regard and this is not the fault of men. Being foundeers of companies gives men a startling advantage and men often surround themselves with similar thinking men. This is not discrimination but simply prudent business sense. Women come to late to the game at many companies to get themselves included in the upper management. The only way this can be corrected is for women to be the founders at new businesses. With the advent of many on-line businesses, women have their chance at forming computer based start-ups. I see women taking advantage of this and bringing their ideas to fruition via the internet. Then they can look around and hire a few "suits" to populate their companies.

It wasn't that there were no women playing, it's that Obama puts more importance on his games than he does his job. To the real world, this adminstration is beginning to look like one very long vacation for a lotto winner. We have seen all the pictures and photo-ops we need of this man, now we need him to act as a president and start resolving the problems instead of placing blame on the last administration. He has been in office for almost a year...time to get to work and stop playing at being a dignitary.

"Companies do not exist to adapt to families, they exist to make money."
This poster would likely have been one of the company owners in the Industrial Revolution who justified making American men, women, and children work 18+ hour days in sweatshops and factories with no injury compensation and little pay because, after all, the poor companies were just trying to make money and the workers could go to a nicer company if they really didn't like it. (Never mind that international companies still make money off the backs of sweatshop workers in China, Mexico, etc. all in the name of more and more profits.)
The problem with capitalism is not that it creates incentives for people to make money. We all like to have money. The problem is that so many people think that the system should come before people's humanity, people's wellbeing, people's happiness. So many Americans get little time off and no allowance for family circumstances, and it is often women who bear the burden of dropping out of workplaces to take care of sick children and aging relatives. Feminists have hope that there can be a change in workplaces toward being family-friendly and promoting women into the higher echelons without compromising company success, but if you're a die-hard capitalist who's in love with nothing but squeezing profits out of every worker, then you probably disagree.
Thanks, Ms. Estrich, for telling it like it is!