Power Mom 24 Adena Friedman is the CEO of NASDAQ. Working Mother quotes her as saying she'd like to see more women in finance and tech. "I would love in 20 years to see that there is at least 40% women across the spectrum of an organization so that young people can automatically see that career path for themselves." Here's the problem: Career success is not a matter of what you can "see" for "yourself." Our workplaces were designed for a 1950s dad-goes-to-work-while-mom-stays-home family. It's not geared towards the circumstances of two-wage families or single-parent households. In today's fast-paced world, if you start your day after dropping off your kid at school at 8:20, you're already two hours behind the competition. And if you don't want to leave work early to pick up your kid at 2:40, you need child care, which costs money. No wonder many women work fewer hours than men in the same jobs, setting them back when they are ready to return to full-time employment.