![]() ![]() Professor Strazdins said that, while having access to high-quality childcare made a big difference to feelings of guilt while at work, it made little difference to the guilt that relates to performance. ![]() But women still feel constantly under pressure in terms of care." "The compromise has been to give women part-time jobs. "That's an enormous change in terms of time spent in the family. "There has been an extreme transformation over the last 30 years, with the recognition that women should be part of the paid workforce. "We've set up this binary between work and care that is not sustainable," she said. Professor Strazdins said those feelings of guilt stemmed from trying to balance work and family life, and feeling like you were not doing any of it particularly well. ![]() Similarly, when Ariana Huffington said in 2014 that "while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids," many mums breathed a sigh of relief. ![]() "The obligation that evolves for working mothers, in particular, is a very precise one the feeling that one ought to work as if one did not have children, while raising one's children as if one did not have a job. In her book The Wife Drought, Annabel Crabb articulated this tension felt by working mothers: "When women work, they hardly cut back on anything else they just add more and feel incredibly stressed." ![]()
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