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We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

Society is still adapting to women being CEOs and professionals rather than homemakers. Because of this, the unfortunate outcome is that we feel we have to be successful at both - in the office and in the home. Striking that balance is different for everyone.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.