The Job/Family Challenge

If you have a job and children or have to care for an elderly relative or a partner who's ill,you know what the challenge is.It's the daily struggle to balance the often competing demands of your work and home lives,without putting either one at risk.Most of us can identify with the exhaustion of "trying to do it all". While the workforce has changed drastically-more than our mothers imagined-the workplace has not.

The most dramatic change in the workforce in recent years has been growing number of women,including mothers of young children,employed outside the home.This transformation has affected workforce.Yet if you're responsible for both a family and a jjob,you know that most workplace have changed very little to accommodate the realities of their workers' live.

These statistics show the extent of the changes:

For the first time in history,most families don't have a wife/mother at home full ti ... Read more »