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Natalie Morales: Barash recently completed a study that defines 1 what she calls the "New Wife". Who is she? A young educated woman in her twenties who decides that while a career is important, marriage and family come first.

Susuan Sharpiro Barash: She wants to stress free marriage, she wants to have time with her children and her husband.

Natalie Morales: So they see women who have tried to have it all as having failed in summer garden, their personal and professional lives?

Susuan Sharpiro Barash: I don't know about fail, but I think very disappointed. And I think that is a myth 2 of having it all.

Music: Love and marriage, love and marriage,

Natalie Morales: Marlene Mcmahon and Rachel Driling are exactly the kind of women Barash says are examples of the new wife. Marlene put herself through college before starting a career in medical publishing. She met her husband Michael when she was 24, they now have 8-week-old MeKeller.

Music: What a world! What a life, I am in love...

Marlene Mcmahon: Being able to, you know, take her to school, and go to PTA meetings and beat every dance with sidle and make her lunch, I can't even imagine not being able to do that.

Music: Lucky me, can't you see I'm in love...

Natalie Morales: Marlene planned to work part time at some point, but for now she leaves the heavy financial lifting to her husband.

Marlene Mcmahon: We compliment 3 each other, so he is more successful having, knowing that I can take care of our children, and I am more successful knowing that I don't necessarily have to worry it as much, because he's gonna make sure our hot water has got turned off.

Natalie Morales: What does this mean then for the trailblazers who did pave 4 the way for many of us who have careers and have families?

Susuan Sharpiro Barash: The trailblazers were not able to get rid of that second shift that remains 5 today, studies show us that women who work all day still come home to the second shift for their children.

It's hard to put that together.

Natalie Morales: Rachel D's mom Linda Chambers 6 was a baby boomer who tried to do it all as an accountant and mother of 2.

Linda Chambers: I really love my job, I love what I do, and I didn't wanna give that up to be a permanent stay-at-home mom, and I had a lot of stress, you know.

Natalie Morales: That stress made daughter Rachel resolve to do things differently.

Music: Baby, love. my baby, Love. I need you, I know I need you...

Natalie Morales: Married at 26, she stays home with son Dashwood and works just 4 times a month as a nurse practitioner 7.

Rachel: I would much rather sacrifice material items, myself, I would, my husband and Dashwood...and to be old for us to have me stay at home with our son.

Miss Magazine senior editor Michele Kort finds Barash's trend troubling.

Michele Kort: It will be a step backward if women blame this choice on their hardworking mothers, and didn't look at the societal situation that creates that kind of stress

Kid: No, no, no...

Natalie Morales: The harsh 8 reality is there is no easy answer for joggling career and family, especially for women in demanding professions. Doctor Grace Kang is an unmarried 37-year-old pediatric cardiologist with 14 difficult years of medical training finally behind her.

Grace Kang: I think it would have been very difficult to have a husband and a family and to do well in my training, to succeed, really succeed at it.

Natalie Morales: Doctor Kang has no regrets and feels confident that a marriage and a family are in her future.

Grace Kang: I don't think it's too late,

Natalie Morales: So then we talk now the 21st century wife, what does she represent?

Susuan Sharpiro Barash: She is probably the smartest of all, because she is willing to scrutinize 9, the recent past, and to take the best from each decade.