Dog bites woman? Still not news

First Siva:

Remember all those stupid newspaper stories about how more and more women (of course, no statistics offered) are choosing not to work so they can become full-time breeders etc? Back when they appeared, we here at Sivacracy did our best to ridicule them. But, of course, there was no real social science either behind these "opt-out" stories or our refutations of them.

Well, now it turns out that someone has done the work. And we were right. I love saying that. We were right. No opt-out.

Then Kathy G:

..."studies" and research that reinforce retrograde, sexist stereotype tend to get wall-to-wall saturation media coverage, while those that don't tend to be ignored. Wondering whether this was the case with the Percheski paper, I looked it up on Google News (using several different search terms -- "American Sociological Review," Percheski, "opt out", etc.). And what did I find? A grand total of four mentions of the study: in a Reuters article, in a column in the Orlando Sentinel, and in blog posts for the Wall Street Journal and Business Week websites. That was it. 

Is there any doubt that if her study did indeed show a decline in women's labor force particpation, that every newspaper and website in the land would be shouting it from the rooftops?