I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.
The things women find rewarding about work are, by and large, the same things that men find rewarding and include both the inherent nature of the work and the social relationships.
Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.