Big company managers, male and female alike, think women's family commitments will interfere with their ability to perform executive level jobs says a recent study from the University of Illinois at Chicago's College of Business Administration.  Additionally, the managers saw men as a better fit for the company's senior roles than they did the "softer" women, regardless of skill level.

For this reason, not surprisingly, studies also report what we already know--that women are cycling out of fulltime corporate positions fairly quickly so they can create meaningful, paid work that has that other quality multi-taskers and jugglers prize so highly--flexibility.

Or, to put it another way, even if you're a well-paid female exec, at a certain point does the combination of corporate slog (which knows no gender), male-dominated and male-centric environment (the usual in many industries) and lack of flexibility lead to the code words "fuck it" ?

And to starting a business of your own? Seems that way.