Women Engineers? Really?

The university I attend has a great engineering school, one of the best in the country. A lot of the student there happen to be women. I found this very strange (not even for the reasons which I highlighted in my first ever blog post - here). Why would a woman want to be an engineer? It is a career totally and utterly unsuited for her. This does not mean she is unsuited for becoming an engineer, it simply means that a career in engineering or other technical professions does not fit well into an average woman's life. The average woman has children. Raising children takes time. This means that taking off a few years might be necessary for mothers. Now in technical professions such as engineering or computer science this is impossible to execute. Sometimes even a few months are all that's necessary to fall behind. Incredible advances are made daily in these disciplines. Therefore it is clearly impossible to take a couple years off to raise a child under such circumstances. Women who study engineering are either making a choice not to have a child, to doom their child to childcare, or to have a really pointless education which they will never use once they start having kids. However I noticed most women don't even realize this is true - they simply never think of it. So how can someone who can't even anticipate such simple problems be intelligent enough to become an engineer? This makes no sense... Wouldn't it be more natural for a woman to take on a job in one of the more 'family-friendly' professions? Why do women do most teaching and administrative jobs? It is not only because they are more suited for them in terms of personality, but also because these jobs suit an average woman's lifestyle. A primary school teacher can take 2-3 years off for raising her own child and then go back to teaching kids their ABC's or basic math.
I in no way intend to make this a condemnation of women who study engineering. However, I want to say that it is not always good to follow the feminist/socialist agenda of saying that women are identical to men. They are not. Comparing men to women is like comparing apples to oranges. They might both be round fruits, but which is better? It is impossible to say! One can be better for something while the other better for something else. It is the same with men and women. The basic economic law of Division of Labor applies to the sexes as much as it applies to individual people who have different faculties or resources.

To discribe my observations it is best to use this quotation from Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband: "Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious." A society of women engineers? Really? Isn't there something obviously strange about this?