Forbes: Going to a woman’s undergraduate college taught me that it’s okay for women to be smart. When I went to Columbia Law School, I found myself explaining that to a very brainy, beautiful classmate who told me she got more dates if she acted dumb. That was in 1978.

Women have come an enormous distance since then. Currently they serve as CEOs of 14 Fortune 500 companies, according to Catalyst. Among them: Indra K. Nooyi at PepsiCo;  Irene B. Rosenfeld from Kraft Foods; Patricia A. Woertz of Archer Daniels Midland; Ursula M. Burns of Xerox, and Carol A. Bartz of Yahoo.

Still, for all we have achieved — with our careers, managing our finances, sharing child rearing and other household responsibilities — we’re not as savvy about estate planning as we ought to be. In fact, a recent survey by EZLaw suggests that women care more about losing weight than about protecting their financial assets.

Does this mean women have more will power when it comes to their waistlines, than when it comes to estate planning?