Have you achieved a perfect work-life balance?
While this poll is more geared towards women, opinions of men would be interesting too.
If you look at the Fortune 500 companies, there are very few women CEOs. Marissa Myers, Yahoo's CEO is the most high profile woman of the lot and she announced her pregnancy , shortly after joining.
She got back to work within 2 weeks, and had a nursery suite right next to her office.
However, it's not that easy for many women. While feminist ideals push for a "you can have it all" (family life and career), it's highly unlikely that is the case.
In fact, Anne Marie-Slaughter, in her article against this, wrote it as more of a function of personal ambition than reality.
Unless you have a very supportive family and even more supporting husband, it's very hard.
Women end up at a crossroad wondering how they'd be able to juggle between families and careers.
Women with children end up "leaning" back - opting for more flexible hours, taking lesser responsibilities and so forth.
It's completely justifiable and I can see how a woman makes such a decision.
Most women take two years off work to raise their toddlers and then get back to work, but a high powered job would mean seeing your kids for fewer times, missing important events or just not being there for them when they do their homework at crucial junctions of teenagehood.
Personally I don't believe a woman "can have it all" unless she's her own boss and her own scheduler.
I believe the same would apply for a man.
Sacrifices would have to be made. Family or career - that decision would sometime come. For example, a job offer at a location with higher pay and more upward mobility but far away from the kid's school. Just saying.
What do you guys think?
ABOUT THE POLL -
It is gender based.
While this poll is more geared towards women, opinions of men would be interesting too.
If you look at the Fortune 500 companies, there are very few women CEOs. Marissa Myers, Yahoo's CEO is the most high profile woman of the lot and she announced her pregnancy , shortly after joining.
She got back to work within 2 weeks, and had a nursery suite right next to her office.
However, it's not that easy for many women. While feminist ideals push for a "you can have it all" (family life and career), it's highly unlikely that is the case.
In fact, Anne Marie-Slaughter, in her article against this, wrote it as more of a function of personal ambition than reality.
Unless you have a very supportive family and even more supporting husband, it's very hard.
Women end up at a crossroad wondering how they'd be able to juggle between families and careers.
Women with children end up "leaning" back - opting for more flexible hours, taking lesser responsibilities and so forth.
It's completely justifiable and I can see how a woman makes such a decision.
Most women take two years off work to raise their toddlers and then get back to work, but a high powered job would mean seeing your kids for fewer times, missing important events or just not being there for them when they do their homework at crucial junctions of teenagehood.
Personally I don't believe a woman "can have it all" unless she's her own boss and her own scheduler.
I believe the same would apply for a man.
Sacrifices would have to be made. Family or career - that decision would sometime come. For example, a job offer at a location with higher pay and more upward mobility but far away from the kid's school. Just saying.
What do you guys think?
ABOUT THE POLL -
It is gender based.