September 27, 2005 8:41 AM

More on the Ivy Leaguers planning already to opt out
Posted by Diane Danielsonat 8:41 AM

Thanks for the good news in your last post, Doug! But, here's more from the Boston Globe on the Yalies and Harvard women already planning to opt out of the workforce.

THE LATEST round in the mommy wars is being waged over women who aren't even mommies yet: They are high-achieving Ivy League students who are planning to scale down or even give up their careers once they have children.

A front-page New York Times article about these exotic creatures has caused a flurry of debate: Some conservatives see it as a blow to politically correct orthodoxy about women, some feminists see it as a sign of the dreaded ''backlash" against women's gains. Still others shrug it off as pseudo-journalistic fluff with more hype than substance. In fact, reading too much social significance into the Times story would be a mistake; but it still points to lessons that feminism ignores at its peril.