What if you can't get them to work?

Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood By LOUISE STORY

Many women at the nation's most elite colleges say they have already decided that they will put aside their careers in favor of raising children. Though some of these students are not planning to have children and some hope to have a family and work full time, many others, like Ms. Liu, say they will happily play a traditional female role, with motherhood their main commitment.

Much attention has been focused on career women who leave the work force to rear children. What seems to be changing is that while many women in college two or three decades ago expected to have full-time careers, their daughters, while still in college, say they have already decided to suspend or end their careers when they have children.

And yet people complain that women are outnumbered by men in many professions. But if many of them don't see the need to work, there will be less of them working, right?