I agree completely that young women should take their college and life work seriously. Maxine Turner was everything Ms. Hirshman said and so very much more. She was a brilliant student and a kind and compassionate human being. As her mother, I encouraged all of her efforts and dreams - and certainly made it clear that she could compete with ANYONE. On the balance issue though, she was raised by a stay-at-home mom (me) since she was eight years old. This is certainly not to imply that she would have been less successful had I stayed in the workforce, just that there is more than one path. I don't regret a single moment I spent raising my beautiful chemical engineer - but always told her that even if she found her Prince Charming, he could be hit by a bus and so she should find something she loved that would support her and a family. She did just that - it continues to break my heart that she never got the chance to invent that something that would change the world for the better - I am quite certain she would have.