As top women step aside, the notorious juggle is again in the spotlight

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Three times in a week, departing women have highlighted the enduring conflict between work and motherhood for talented, mid-career women.

You could argue these women, and other heavy hitters who have stepped aside because they want to at least observe their kids' childhoods, are in a special category due to the extreme demands of their work.Media and politics are notoriously time-greedy, as former politicians Kate Ellis and Kelly O'Dwyer, and the woman who had been widely expected to assume leadership of the federal Labor Party, Tanya Plibersek, would attest.

Despite policies that are pretty window dressing at large employers, the reality of 'the juggle' has, for many women, not grown any easier. Despite a proliferation of policies that are pretty window dressing at large employers, the reality of "the juggle" has, for many women, not grown any easier. In many workplaces presenteeism may be discouraged officially but is still as rewarded as it ever was; and stigma around actually using flexibility options is as real as it ever was.

 

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