Women, family, civic leadership etc

I have been reading a couple of blog posts over the last few days about Sarah Palin and about whether or not women should hold civic leadership positions and whether or not they should do that when they have families and so forth. So, I am a few days behind on all this but here are two I found most interesting: this one by a single woman, at Radical Womanhood, and this one, by a Mum with six kids under ten, about what is a woman's highest calling (which I found quite unexpected). Tim Challies also wraps it all up here.