A grown up conundrum

This morning I was on the phone with my dad trying to figure out if I should go to work or not. A little back story on this, yesterday it sleeted most of the day and in some places it was still small pellets that you could get a grip on when walking on and other places it was a sheet of ice. Now in the street that I park on it was almost all ice. I had been watching the local news and the weather channel all morning long. From what I could tell the roads were either fine or all ice. 

As I was talking to my dad I was just trying to determine if I thought it would be safe on the road or if I should stay home. I processed through what I had to do at work: work on a paper. Wait I can do that at home. Eventually my dad asked what is it you want me to do. And I said I just want you to help me decide, and he laughed and said make your own choice. So as I decided to stay home since I didn't want to total my car or die for my job, I had a thought. 

Why is it that we (as women) believe that the right choice is to drive to work on bad weather as opposed to being safe and staying off the road? 

My dad asked if he should answer that and I said it was just a thought. But it struck me that I felt like I was letting people down if I stayed home. It would be one thing if I was just being lazy but when I made the choice it was all ice behind my car. Now about an hour later when maintenance showed up the roads looked much less icy as is mostly wet. But sometimes the goal is to make a choice and then just live with it. I manged to get lots of stuff done and snuggle with Lily all day. In the end I don't know that one choice was better than the other but I was glad that I made one. I will be sure to let you know if I have more crazy grown up choices or insights.