Elite College Women

According to this NY Times article roughly 60% of women paying $160,000 for an education plan to stop working when they have kids.

That is their choice.

However, from an economic standpoint, that's a really expensive education. The theory goes that we pay that much to go to Ivies and their ilk because of the advantages down the road in our careers. But, if you're not going to have a career, that argument goes out the window. In essence, these women are getting the 'Mrs' degree.

On the other hand, I don't know of many women from college who's paths are going quite the way they intended. The grad degree by 25, married at 27, kids at 29, make VP by 33. Most of us are quite off that schedule. And almost all had a schedule close to that. Some have the VP part, just not the rest.

While I think women should be able to make the decision to stay at home, it seems to me to be a waste of the education if they do nothing but raise the kids.