No, she seems to be talking about a variety of vocational options. However, she then goes on to imply that it's the responsibility of someone other than each individual woman to facilitate the woman's choices.
As soon as anyone, man or woman, says that he or she has "no choice" but to engage in some activity they don't wish to, that person has chosen to define himself as helpless, rather than functional. This is what the author is doing on behalf of "American woman" ... saying that "she" isn't capable of making decisions and taking responsibility.