What a Woman Wants?

I've been reading a book of essays, Women in a Man's World, Crying, and it is really making me think. Some of the essays are about how women have fought to be equal and the effect it is having on us now - both good and not so good.

I admit to feeling proud of our hard fought almost equality, but also admit to wondering how much good it's done for us in the end. I love being able to have a career, but there are more days now when I would love to just stay home and spend time decorating my home, taking my child to school, picking him up from school, having time to actually fold laundry before putting it away, ect.

Instead, I run to work, work, then run from work to school activites, then to sporting events, making dinner somewhere in between, picking up the living room in between that, and finally climbing into bed to read a good book only to fall asleep in the middle of the third paragraph from exhaustion. The next day looks pretty much the same. I wonder...is this what our predecessors intended?