I would like to read more about this topic, and I think she is correct on highlighting the financial implications of women “scaling back.”

If you do not work for any money, you do not earn any money. Period, end of story and you are relying on another to finance you. This to me is the anti-feminism, anti-empowerment and today August 26th being the day women received the right to vote in the U.S., is a great time to highlight that. Money is power, and independence and the ability to decide for oneself. An education and the ability to vote are all about self actualization and freedom, at the most fundamental level. It is important to discuss this issue more, because I think somewhere along the line it got lost. And we, women, are loosing our voices in the discussion.
Until well into the 1960s women in the U.S. could not have credit cards in their own names.
And now in 2009, we want to tell women to scale it back and let their husband’s run all the finances? Is this not the same thing as telling a woman she cannot have a credit card?

The idea that this — this giving up you ability to earn — has no implications for you in the world because you are a woman, is absurd, yet this is the view of many, many, and in 2009, it is a view I hear often as a working mother. Way more often than I would have expected. And it totally misses our chance to stand up for ourselves and ask for what we need from our governments, our husbands, our children and yes, our bank accounts.