The career clock and the biological clock are ticking at the same time—yet they are in complete and absolute conflict. When you’re expected to have children, you’re also expected to build your career. Just as you begin rising into middle management, your children need you the most because they’re teenagers. Those years demand your full presence. And that’s also the phase when your spouse becomes a teenager too—so he or she needs you as well.
As you grow older, your parents start needing you because they’re aging. Working and raising a family—being a stay-at-home parent is itself a full-time job. This conflict is hardest on working women. For them, a job, family responsibilities, and parenting together become three full-time jobs rolled into one.
That’s why working women are the real warriors—and why they truly deserve the title of Home Ministers.
