But of course...

(Tim, w/thanks to Hendo) Der Spiegel has an article on Europe's population decline and the impact it's having on the hiring of women for management positions. From the article:

Companies with a blend of male and female senior executives are more successful, both economically and in terms of their corporate culture. According to the studies, the companies with the most women in senior management achieved a return on equity that was up to 53 percent higher than those without women in top-ranking positions. Earnings were shown to be significantly higher in companies with at least three women on their management boards. Three appears to the magic number, because it enables women to influence the dominant culture in a group.

Is this really news?

The argument hasn't been that women executives make corporations less profitable. My wife and daughters could run any business fine, thank you. Trust me.

But while they're off earning serious money as captains of industry and masters of the universe, who exactly is carrying the unborn nestled in the womb? Who is giving birth? Who is nursing the young?

Reading this article about Germany could lead one to conclude that the entire nation has gone stark raving mad. No one's willing to be a mother and have babies, so they're taking the mothers who have had babies and shooting them into the boardroom. And they think they've discovered something when these mothers prove to be resilient, disciplined, selfless, wise, hardworking, and responsible?

Nations show their priorities by where you find their women...

Germany puts them in the corporate boardroom, the United States puts them in a Humvee in Iraq, and London puts them in Number 10 Downing Street. But the Church of Jesus Christ puts them nowhere.

Rather, Christian women in the Church have enough freedom to chose to be feminine and to devote themselves to their home, husbands, and children. And anyone who says these women are forced by their husbands to stay home needs to go find a homeschooling mother and ask her what she'd really like to be doing if she had a choice?

Then duck.