The state of women - Kathleen Parker

. . .Women are reaching equality as never before.   Certainly many struggle to keep food on the table.   But in the salons where luckier women discuss what women really want, they are reaching the traditional benchmarks of happiness - money and power - and guess what:   They're still not happy. . .

Of course women want wealth and power, but not at the expense of the things that matter most - equilibrium, inner peace, wisdom, heart and a family that isn't in constant chaos.

Research, which we prefer to common sense, supports that happy, well-adjusted, less stressed-out people make more productive and efficient workers. Men also, by the way, because it turns out men are human, too.  

. . .Ariana Huffington (at a conference discussing the missing thing in our lives) described it as that inner place of heart, soul and wisdom where few of us spend much time. . .
                                                                          Kathleen Parker editorial,  Kansas City Star,  6/17/13