Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.
When it went on the air the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups people were saying 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
