Looks like 60 Minutes is planning a segment on “women who crashed through the glass ceiling and became successful in the workplace, but who then choose to go home and raise children.”

Uh-oh. Now obviously I don’t have any idea what their angle will be, but it’s not looking too positive from their description:

Look around these days, and you'll find women in positions of real power: a woman at the helm of the National Security Council, two Supreme Court justices, female board members of every Fortune 100 company. Just as it was supposed to be 40 years after women got in the front door. But look for the women of the next generation -- who everyone assumed would follow in droves behind them -- and you're likely to find many of them walking right back out ... and staying at home. So what’s going on? Lesley Stahl takes a look at this phenomenon this Sunday, October 10, on 60 Minutes (CBS, 7PM EST/PT).

First of all, the idea that women are just brimming over in the halls of power is pretty naïve. But that’s for another day…

This blurb sounds like a throw-back to the elitist crap article the NY Times magazine ran about a year ago, The Opt-Out Revolution (10/26/03), by Lisa Belkin. The article took on the “phenomenon” of women who chose to forgo their high-powered careers and put aside their MBAs to take on full time motherhood.

What Belkin glossed over was the fact that most American women don’t have the financial capability to make that kind of choice—even if they want to. The piece also assumed that these “women at the top” were worthy of examination because they would determine social trends for the rest of us. A side note: this article contained what I think is the most cringe-inducing quote ever: “Why don't women run the world? Maybe it's because they don't want to.” Sigh. (Not to mention that recent reports say differently.)

Again, I don’t know how in-depth CBS plans to get on Sunday, but I’m willing to bet that it will assume all working women really want to trade the office for home.

Now let me be clear here—I believe feminism is about choices, and that women’s work at home is equally as important as work in the formal economy. But a “choice” that is only available to a privileged few does not make for a serious social trend.

If you feel the need, you can call or email CBS News and urge them to take a fair look at women and work on Sunday's show:

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