Showing us how it’s done

SHE’S often presented either as superwoman, effortlessly scaling the corporate ladder with briefcase in one hand and baby bottle in the other, or as a human disaster zone, endlessly flapping around in chaos with baby rice smears on her iPad and toddler bribes in her pocket.

But who are the real women who juggle careers and children and what are their lives really like?

Are they driven by choice or necessity, and what helps them maintain, or lose, the balancing act?