Women on top unable to manage family--study

Dr. Catherine Hakim, senior research fellow at the department of sociology at London School of Economics, revealed that women who keep juggling between the roles of a career woman and home maker hardly get to spend time with their family and end up like a “nominal family.”

Working women end up having nominal families--experts
Researchers aver that women might face a tough time coping with inflexible gender equality laws and pay gaps due to their life style choices.

And while working women may have won sexual battle at workplace, their decision to raise family rather than focus on career might bring them more harm than good.

Dr. Hakim's 12,000-word report called ‘Feminist Myths and Magic Medicine,’ due to be published next month, calls for top government officials to drop new policies that allow flexible working hours, more time off for fathers, and more places for women on company boards.

“In Britain half of all women in senior positions are child-free, and a lot more of them have nominal families with a single child and they subcontract out the work of caring for them to other women,” the Daily Star quoted Dr. Hakim as saying.

"Equal opportunities policies have succeeded in giving equal access for women to the labour market.

"People are confusing equal opportunities with equal outcomes, and there is little popular support for the kind of social engineering being demanded by feminists and legislators," she added.

Dr Hakim concluded that there is no difference between male and female managers and that success in a business, for either sex, is dependent on commitment to work and willingness to put in the necessary hours.

The question is do career women actually make bad mothers?