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I thought the show was dead on with the careerist mother. Making fun of how she valued her life by working 12 hour days and having "quality time" with her kids rather than the biological imperative. It reminds me of my aunt, who's real careerist, and made no time for her daughters, who either got useless degrees or didn't attend college at all, and are barely scraping by. Hanna Rosin may say its the end of men, but I've noticed a real generation gap among women I like to call the "Daria" gap: Baby boomer women believed that careers would validate them, so they spend their lives rationalizing what is obvious to most men a meaningless existance of corporate servitude. Their daughters pick up on this, become cynical, so they don't become careerists. The daughters are still infected with the AIDS that is 21st century western society, but they sure as hell ain't gonna make partner. They do what we know they do; get bullshit degrees. I think the level of law and accounting majors among women has declined in the past ten years http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.c...women.html

Says women in law school went from 49% in 2001 to 46%

http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-accounting

If TL;DR, Daria effect=Mom brazen careerist, Daughter art major/barista.