Sam- Working Mothers and Stress

An increasing number of women nowadays are faced with the task of juggling the roles of mother and employee. Incompatibility between work and family life arises due to a number of factors. For instance, a mother who would like to progress in her career and obtain a promotion may feel she has to spend longer hours at work like her colleagues, but this isn’t possible as she has to leave work at a specific time to pick up the child from childcare or school/nursery. Therefore, working mothers may have more stress and might not be able to choose which is more important to them- career or family?