The history of career-oriented women in the workplace is illuminating.

During the pre-war period, the job of newspaper reporter was one of the few movie role models that portrayed intelligent, career-oriented women.

Nelle is primarily a career-oriented woman and is somewhat unique among the show's female characters in that she expresses no desire to ever be a mother.

I am career-oriented African-American woman in my 40s.

Or that James, a Yale student, is looking for a single, career-oriented woman as a tennis partner "and possibly more."

Alex - Alex is an aggressive career-oriented woman.

Then, in the late 1960's, Yves Saint Laurent put it all together and established fashion standards for modern career-oriented women that still make sense today.

Life expectancy has increased while many career-oriented women are waiting longer to start their families.

Such advertising may be raising false hopes in career-oriented young women.