I found a link to your blog from "Beyond the Glass Ceiling", which I found in the process of a research paper where the evidence of much recent data shows that the Glass Ceiling is basically irrelevant and family matters are more important. That being, women AND men sharing the family duties; priorities and the vision of success is now drastically different than with the baby boomers. I found The Shriver Report "A Woman's Nation", recently released, incredibly informative and I'd recommend that everyone read it. The point that I focused on within my paper was the simple difference between men and women, and that women are more likely to leave the workplace to either have children or care for a loved one and also that women, in many cases, are now the breadwinners and still not paid equally.
The one point I may disagree on is that while it may not be hard to get back into the work-game post-kids, but equality in pay for women still hasn't happened across the board – have you found any evidence of this even in consulting?

AMSmith