THE ASCENT OF THE WORKING WOMAN is not new. Indeed, it is as old as time, as women have always been the measure of the health and well-being of society, not men. Women have led without power using their guile to influence men when men were often otherwise occupied to the point of walking off the cliff and into the abyss. Women have been forced by social protocol to be mainly obliging listeners and supportive partners to men, who traditionally have...