NOT anymore. This is our grandmother's world, when she had no other choice. Today's woman has more oprions and more and more women are opting out of miserable housewife oppression, to center ouselves, choose our careers, remain single and joyful, or live a soft live with our signifcant other because that's what both want. Women have more options, now, thankfully, and the woman, the family unit, and world, is better off for it.