Kirsten is your typical working professional. On the return journey of her two day business trip, 30,000 feet in the air she works over the graphs and charts and composes her reports. She lands and heads straight to her office rather than home, submits her report, has a little chit-chat with her colleagues and then heads home. She opens a house filled with litter, thanks to her two boys, a sink full of dishes, thanks to her busy husband who cooks well but makes quite a mess, and a basket full of laundry.

Dropping her bags, she rolls up her sleeves and gets right to work; within no time, she turns into your typical American housewife. The living room is back to its sparkly glory, the beds are made, the kitchen is spotless and so is the bathroom. Getting the laundry in place, she gets ready and heads off to her sons’ school where she is part of the organizing committee of a PTA sponsored event.

Kirsten is an example of the alpha mom, alpha wife, alpha school volunteer… the list goes on. In short, she is, what a lot many modern women have become – the Alpha Everything Woman. Sounds exhausting right! And do women like Kristen really exist or are they a figment of imagination.

The alpha woman, especially the alpha everything woman,  is not something that women decided one fine day that they will become but are the women that have become the alpha in most or all walks of life due their thirst to balance everything; be it work, home, the family vacations or the children’s school responsibilities. Although it may be difficult to find an alpha everything woman, it is not impossible and also, one can find an alpha mom or alpha wife very readily.

Here is a look at some of the alpha women.

The Alpha School Volunteer –

If you find a woman in school crested apron running around backstage at school musicals and performances with a clipboard that you’d assume is surgically attached to her hand and you wrongly assume that she is on the payroll; there is your alpha school volunteer. These are the women who take charge and become an active part of their children’s extracurricular school activities.

The Alpha schlepper –

Yes, you heard it right, the alpha schlepper. Who else can schlep more groceries and more laundry from the kid’s room, and more recycling, if not the alpha schlepper. She’s the woman who you’ll see effortlessly hauling all these things including the holiday decorations from the basement or the stack of old books to the library donation desk. Probably all that muscle training of the nineties is what helps her get through, not just Mr. Muscle.

The Alpha Snacker –

In modern times where the kids truly hate their veggies and love their fast food, she’s the woman to the rescue of her kids’ health. She’ll cook up the latest in crunchy munchies to satisfy her kids’ palettes and at the same time keep them away from junk food using her magic in the kitchen. Be it gourmet sauces or the picnic snacks, the alpha snacker will have everyone licking their finger and all the snacks will be healthy ones too. On a picnic, she’ll not only have her bag filled with crunchies but ask her and she will be packing some hand sanitizer too.

We are already familiar with the alpha mom who is well versed in the techno-gizmos that her kids use, is well researched with the latest and hip vacation spots and at the same time knows which color of the nail paint she should apply.

Then came along the alpha wife. The wife who runs as fast in her career as her husband and sometimes even surpasses him and at the same time, manages her home.
Recent research has shown that around 22 percent of wives earn more than their husbands and also a sizable amount, 20 percent, of the wives are more educated than their husbands. But does this change anything? Probably not. Because these facts and figures hardly matter to these wives and moms. Their prime aim is to have a happy married life and to provide the best that is achievable for their kids.