Working mothers - Two jobs may undermine family life

THE label “working mother” must be one of the most under-powered and patronising descriptions current today. It leaves the delusional room to imagine that there might be another kind.

Motherhood, and to a lesser degree fatherhood, presents an unavoidable litany of one chore after another for the great majority of women.

That list is greatly extended if both parents “work outside the home” and is usually stretched to its very limit for women whose lives are divided between family and career. And no matter how we give lip-service to that fabled species — New Man — it is nearly always the women who do the heavy lifting in this situation.