Here’s a success secret that really shouldn’t be a secret: Successful businesses thrive on moneymaking activities—business-building activities that produce immediate, ongoing, or future income … regular activities that have proven themselves to be worthwhile and beneficial to the financial success of the business.

A 2006 article in the New York Times cited labor department statistics that, for college-educated women in middle adulthood, the gender pay gap had widened during the previous decade. The phenomenon was attributed partly to discrimination, but also to “women’s own choices. The number of women staying home with young children has risen …. especially among highly educated mothers, who might otherwise be earning high salaries.”