You are a little bit disconnected. Connie Vertegaal, a journalist with the Enkhuizer Courant daily paper in the Netherlands, sometimes dropped by the office with her baby, Dora, who was born last September. Ms. Vertegaal's job sometimes includes covering local government meetings in the evenings, which can keep her working until midnight. But the problem is less the hours than the logistics of using her breast pump, since at the paper she can slip into a closed office for a few minutes, but not so at the city council. But it was my mother who pushed me to go to university and be independent, because she was dependent on my father.
Guilt can take more than one form.
The joys of outsourcing. If you have a sick child, boom, you have to find a solution directly. At the managerial and executive level, women can afford to contract out certain household duties, although Ms. Burnand notes that a lack of tax breaks for child care in the U.K. means that the vast portion of her salary goes to her nanny. That was nothing. On Thursday, the cleaning person comes, so I try to get things somewhat in order first.