January 19, 2005 1:56 PM

Chicago doesn’t sound much more appealing than New England
Posted by Diane Danielsonat 1:56 PM

I had to blog about this article because not only does it point out that Chicagoland is not much better for working women than New England (see yesterday’s post), but it also manages to work in this month’s biggest news story – for those of you in hibernation, did you know that Brad and Jen broke up?

It's been a tough week for women. First there was news of the Brad and Jen split. (That's Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, in case you have been cast away on some desert island for the last month.)

Their much-ballyhooed breakup was announced after the couple returned from a New Year's holiday in the Caribbean. No details have been released, but gossips' tongues are wagging over rumors that their most irreconcilable difference is over whether to have children. He wants 'em; she doesn't.

This news, however speculative it may be, was enough to send one commentator into a dither. It's a slap at working women everywhere, wrote Rebecca Traister of Salon.com. It means that no matter how much women do, we're still defined by our uteruses. ...

... Moving on to actual news that is much more troubling: The progress for women in the corporate world of Chicago has slowed to a crawl.

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