Joyce Fegan: Can you afford to be a mother and an employee too?

"So when you worry that your house is a mess or that you could never run 5km, or that you're not bringing enough cash into your home, it is in this context — the context that women, mothers predominantly, are plugging the chasm in childcare where the State will not"

In a 2015 German study, parents said they found the first two years of parenting more stressful than unemployment or the loss of a partner. 

IN the confines of many mothers’ homes and minds the thinking is: “There is something wrong with me.”

Their perceived failings vary from day to day but they are common across the board.