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FYI,
My mother has a master's degree and is now retired after a long and successful career. She is lately retired from the boards of directors of two corporations.
My maternal grandmother is also a college graduate and achieved seats on six boards of directors, two public corporations, and four not-for-profit national organizations.
My eighth great-grandmother led an expedition of several workmen and two native Americans from Staten Island, up the Hudson to Newburgh and then trekked inland to a land grant and there supervised work on clearing and building on the land patent of her indenture holders.
She did that at age 16 and was the first white woman in Orange county, New York.
My sixth great-grandmother was at the Four Fort Massacre. When her husband fell at his gun she took-up his arm and fought, barely escaping with her life as she was so wounded to appear dead. She was later granted veteran status by Congress.
My twenty-eighth great-grandmother was Eleanor of Aquitaine.
My eighteenth great-grandmother was Catherine de Medici.
I have NO problem with women who change gender roles, have been raised with a family of women who did (all the female members of my family, mother, two sisters, only female first cousin, all have masters degrees. My first cousin also holds several awards for winning tractor trailer driving rodeos (she's a very interesting person)), and I was raised in a household where women were expected to work outside the home and taught to rely on no one else for their happiness, finances, or successes.
jason_els is very erudite on this subject and has quite the family tree to back up his position of having some understanding on womens place in "history". While there are exceptions, or many exceptions to this "rule" there are many men and women who dwell within these boundaries that we now understand can be flexible.