Women can have it all - not!
Let me introduce you to the biggest myth of modern society - women can have it all!
By all one means children and high-flying career. But in my experience real life just doesn't work like that.
Firstly, though many career jobs may officially allow child-friendly working hours, the truth is that the unofficial working hours one actually needs to do in order to get promotion and progress up the company may not tally with the school day and childcare provision.
Despite supposed Government help, the cost of childcare is not insignificant, particularly once one has more than one child to worry about. And even supposing one does have a kind and competent relative willing to look after them for free that still means a mother has to give up spending much of that beautiful early years' time with their child.
But take a career break, assuming your company offers enough financial and other opportunities to make this even a possible consideration, and a woman risks returning to work out-of-touch and years behind on the career ladder.
Maybe one day women really will be able to have it all. We can but hope. But it certainly doesn't look that way at the moment. Instead, women still have to compromise, according to their own priorities.
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I've been following the ins and outs of it for many years, and now the realisation that however good we females are at multi tasking, when we take on the roles of wife, mother and career male all at the same time, it fails. Physically and mentally it's too much for our bodies to cope with; it's as simple as that. And bosses don't like being tangled up in the legislation that forces them to accomodate the ideology.
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22/09/07 @ 11:57