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The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.

Women are trying to have it all but are trying to regain control over their time. That's why many women are busting out of the traditional workforce and starting their own businesses.

It isn't that women are less ambitious, but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

There are less opportunities for women.

The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.

It is, I think, harder for women. I haven't quite figured it out, and all of my women friends haven't figured it out -how the hell do you do this? How do you work and have families?

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

Most families rely on two incomes to make ends meet, and when a woman earns less, we put working families at a huge disadvantage.

The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.