Second, women are more likely to start small scale, part-time businesses to balance work and family.
Workplace FlexibilityWomen frequently start their own companies in order to give themselves the flexibility to balance work and family.
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" The next big step forward will be when people stop saying, "It's awfully tough to balance work and family -- for a woman.
One study found that two-thirds of American women had at some point switched from full-time work to part-time or flexible time to balance work and family.
In the movie, Sarah Jessica Parker plays a fairly high-strung investment executive who tries to balance work, family, and the daily demands of being a mom and wife.
"You know, who better than her to understand the challenges that we have as career women trying to balance work and family, " former U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin said.
Ms. Goldin said women's gains in medicine have coincided with the rise of corporate-owned hospitals and medical practices, in many cases making it easier for women to balance work and family.
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Work has increased markedly for women, but consistent with their rising education levels, longer delays in marriage and childbearing, and reduced fertility, this is mainly reflective of greater opportunities to balance work and family.
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And I think that reflects a larger problem, that for too long we as a society have viewed policies that help people balance work and family as somehow a special benefit maybe to women who shoulder that, rather than an essential part of a workplace that can benefit everyone in the workplace.
This will help all children get a sure start in life, help parents balance their work and family life and support local communities.
She is solely responsible for the balance of work and family.
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The e-learning programme is founded on the basic and practical principle that the use of the internet as a learning tool not only creates anonymity and thus dismantles the psychological barriers that prevent illiterate adults from resuming their studies but also enables them to balance their work, family and learning commitments by learning at home at whatever time is suitable to them.
Since we acquire these beliefs early on in life, the sooner we begin to collectively reshape our values around work, work life balance, family time, the sooner we can begin to shape the beliefs, and thus the behaviors, of the next generation.
These lawyers will be American but cheaper, perhaps because they are looking for a work-family balance.
The results of the research reveal five distinct approaches to work-family balance.
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Having a baby causes a host of changes to a mother's life and lifestyle that can influence her eating patterns, exercise habits, and work-family balance, says Truls Ostbye, M.
Instead of telling new generations what choices to make, we should turn our attention to creating the social supports and economic opportunities that will help them forge the more egalitarian relationships, satisfying work careers and work-family balance they desire, regardless of when -- and whether -- they marry.
Rather, they will struggle to balance the conflicting demands of work and family.
If you thought disagreements about money, work-and-family balance, sex and in-laws were the biggest threats to your marriage, think again.
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So the job I searched for was -- allowed me to have balance with my work as well as my family.
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For many years -- just a few years ago, we came to Washington, I was a part of that work-family struggle to balance that full-time job, plus being an around-the-clock role -- that role you play as mom, particularly when you have a spouse who is traveling a lot.
For women, the search for meaning is not only valid, but vitally important, whether it shows up in how they approach raising a family or how they decide to balance work and life.
As a leader, a continuous and ongoing challenge is finding a balance between work that requires everything of me emotionally and intellectually and my family who needs me present.
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Do you believe that work comes before family, or that one must strike a balance?
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There is much talk of family life, and of resetting the work-life balance.
Most of us in the real world know that plenty of women have good jobs and good family lives and respect a spectrum of work-life-balance decisions and necessities in themselves and each other.
To hear the employer representatives tell it, companies are providing their workers with services that make it easier to balance home and family life in an age when there are few stay-at-home spouses and work is stressful.
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