Working women are struggling to find the right balance between a blissful family situation and achieving a thriving working career.
Working women stress the need for support from their partner as well as from their company. Stay-at-home-dads, paternity and maternity leave, flextime and special working arrangements can alleviate the pressure. Some women trade off with their partner’s schedule, so there’s always somebody to spend quality time with the kids. The proximity of a school or daycare can be helpful, but from time to time a nanny or live-in ready to lend a hand is a superior resolution.
Interviewed women leaders point out that it’s essential to work for a firm whose corporate culture completes your lifestyle since it can define your career path and family situation thoroughly. Female entrepreneurs confirm that you should immediately insist on certain values that are important to you when you’re applying for a job. If the company wants to match with your lifestyle, they’ll let you have breakfast every morning with your children.
Most interviewed working women are happy with the decisions they took in life. In the end, it’s not impossible to have a flourishing career and children, you’ve just got to make sure you make time for those happy faces.
Source: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=182
Astrid Thienpont
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