This double burden is why sceptics regard the idea as politically impossible.

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And in a 2010 McKinsey report, female senior executives cited the "double burden syndrome" of balancing motherhood and work as the main obstacle to women attaining more top roles in companies.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) calls it a "double burden" of disease and says: "It is not uncommon to find under-nutrition and obesity existing side-by-side within the same country, the same community and the same household".

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In j12 double sculls, Nick Burden and Probert were successful as were Reynolds and Jess Boon in Wj11 double sculls before Ross capped the weekend when Livi Jephcote and Megan Jephcote won the wj12 double sculls.

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Schaefer believes big budgets and smaller ensembles have placed an increasingly heavy burden on actors who now pull double duty as singers and dancers.

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