Work-Life Balance Awful in US

I think we could rightly dub the era post-9/11 the age of anxiety.  Anxiety, anxiety, anxiety.  It's taken over the country on every level.  It seems to be the one thing Americans can agree on: we are anxious.

One of the major reasons:  this idea of work-life balance being out of whack.  Another article about it.  The dirty little secret about the age of anxiety:  we'd all be A LOT happier if women were working less and men were working more.  Women would be happier.  Men would be happier.  Our country would be equally well off.  Marriages would be better.  Children would have better homes.  Communities would be incrementally better off.  But we can't say it, nor act upon it, because it is not politically correct.  The liberal utopianism espoused at colleges have made such thoughts retrograde and sexist and wrong to utter, much less act upon.

We are anxious because we are fighting windmills.  Life is hard enough without utopian expectations -- the old timers knew it and lived accordingly.  We'd be smarter following in the majority of their footsteps rather than trying to recreate the world in the image of freshman dorm room discussions.