How can you escape thinking about your own fitness, when everywhere you turn someone is talking about the upcoming Games?
What better time to think about looking after yourself as the Olympics nudge closer.
How can you escape thinking about your own fitness, when everywhere you turn someone is talking about the upcoming Games?
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Just in case you missed the 5 part series on the film I Don’t Know How She Does It, here’s the recap:
Part 1: Sinking Superwoman, learning that OK is good enough Part 2 : Supermanage your childcare Part 3: Getting to grips with the guilt trip Part 4: Work-life balance – is it a pipe dream for professional women Part 5: Investing in your partner is good parenting Investing in your partner is good parenting – Part of 5 of 5 Series I Don’t Know How She Does It5/20/2012 We often think that when the focus isn’t directly on our kids that somehow they are losing out. And if they’re old enough to talk, they’ll certainly tell you that that’s the case… When we’re at work and they’re at home, they lose out. When we’re out in the evening at seminar/night class and they’re at home, they’re missing out.
If you looked up to working mom Kate Redding as a role model, (Kate is played by Sarah Jessica Parker in the film I don’t know how she does it), I suspect you’d come to the conclusion that work-life balance is a pipe dream. Kate does a fantastic job taking on responsibility for everything and everyone, leaving little time to do anything for herself. Just watching the film tired me out! But does it have to be that way? Are there no alternatives if you decide on a career AND a family?
How can you possibly have a career and a personal life and not feel guilty that someone is getting short changed? Is it a no win situation which just can’t be resolved? Sorry for the cliche, but it’s actually a win-win situation.
Super Manage Your Childcare – My Top 3 TipsIn Part 1 of this series I talked about how you need to stop trying to be Superwoman – learn to let go (stop micromanaging!) and give others a chance to grow and develop both at home and at work. Let’s take a closer look at how this applies when it comes to looking after your kids.
Sinking Superwoman - learning that ‘OK’ is good enoughThe European Parliament is calling for EU-wide legislation which would require the boards of listed companies to consist of at least 40% female members by 2020. Currently only about 10% of directors are female in the large listed companies in the EU and this has been fairly static over the last five years. How does this EU average compare to the US or UK? The unfortunate news is that the percentage of female board directors is appalling low across the western world despite women’s high participation in the workforce as well as attainment of both undergraduate as well as advanced degrees.
You can’t judge a book by its cover, but we do. With women still occupying the minority of boardroom seats, we need focus on all angles of the diversity conundrum.
Against a backdrop of females surpassing males in undergraduate degrees, some professional qualifications (e.g. law & medicine) and most recently post graduate degrees, progress at the board level has come to a standstill both in the US and the UK.
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