Working moms are thinking about careers.

• Position: Life in America - Brief article

American families are undergoing a sea change as the nation rethinks who works, who stays home to care for the kids, and why we work. This reexamination of how citizens live comes at a lime when women make up more than half of the people on U.S. payrolls for the first lime in history, with mothers the breadwinners in almost 40% of all families. To understand how working morns see their shifting roles and how others view them, Working Mother magazine surveyed people across the country. Among the findings: whether making $20,000 or $200,000, women with children who view their jobs as a career, rather than just a paycheck, are more satisfied and feel mare positive at work and home.

"I meet woman all the lime who think of their jobs as careers, and it doesn't matter if they're answering phones in a call center or running a company," maintains Carol Evans, president of Working Mother Media...