Can working mothers manage their career and family?
Motion: Can working mothers manage their career and family?
For years, the conventional wisdom for working mothers has been, “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” In other words, you can be there for your children, or you can advance in your career, but not both.
Balance is really a personal idea; mothers each have their own definitions, and in order to achieve balance they must figure out what theirs is and then strive for it. What they’ve found, though, is that they all expect too much.
Mothers all expect to be able to spend one hundred percent of time with their children when they are home and one hundred percent of time on work when it is job time.
This is, of course, unrealistic, which is why they believe they are always beating themselves up (and finding themselves totally spent at the end of the day).
Working mothers are challenged with juggling many different roles that they take on in their lives. Without life balance, there are feelings of being overwhelmed, lack of time, increase stress, and general dissatisfactions in their lives.
As the imbalance increases, working mothers get very close to “burn out” as frustration levels climb.
Fortunately, the prevailing winds are beginning to change, and women are finding they can balance work and family.
Samyuktha and Clarice
