Das "Magazin" der New York Times berichtet unter dem Titel "The Opt-Out Revolution" davon, wie angeblich immer häufiger Frauen bewusst auf eine Karriere verzichten zugunsten der Hege und Pflege von Nachwuchs. Diese babywickelnden Post-Neo-Feministinnen treffe man dann im StarBucks und man komme sich vor wie in den 50ern, ausser dass der Kaffee teurer sei und die Mütter alle ihren Master of Business Administration hätten: Wander into any Starbucks in any Starbucks kind of neighborhood in the hours after the commuters are gone. See all those mothers drinking coffee and watching over toddlers at play? If you look past the Lycra gym clothes and the Internet-access cellphones, the scene could be the 50's, but for the fact that the coffee is more expensive and the mothers have M.B.A.'s. (...) Look at the United States Census, which shows that the number of children being cared for by stay-at-home moms has increased nearly 13 percent in less than a decade. At the same time, the percentage of new mothers who go back to work fell from 59 percent in 1998 to 55 percent in 2000. (...) It's why President Bush's adviser Karen Hughes left the White House, saying her family was homesick and wanted to go back to Austin. It's why Brenda C. Barnes, who was the president and C.E.O. of Pepsi-Cola North America, left that job to move back to Illinois with her family. And it's why Wendy Chamberlin, who was ambassador to Pakistan, resigned, because security concerns meant she never saw her two young daughters. Why don't women run the world? Maybe it's because they don't want to.(...)