A fairly significant amount of women have dedicated a decent amount of time, and money, academically, socially, etc. To their careers.
Why, some women have even found working to be more enjoyable to being at home with kids.
All joking aside, my wife is extremely worried about the impact her career will take from having children and her life goals include executive level leadership as part of her career. So you could, in fact say that corporate life really does matter that much to her.