This quick article from the times made me think of our conversation last week in class. It summarizes a study done by the Department of Economics at Harvard about the career costs of family. Not surprisingly, the corporate world posed the highest penalty in salary for women who took time off to raise kids. In contract, MDs were found to have had the best outcomes.
Though the focus of the study is on having children, I think it follows that a job with more flexibility has implications on other work-life trade-offs.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/m-b-a-s-have-biggest-mommy-penalty-doctors-the-smallest/
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