This Working Life: Survey highlights the impact of ‘managing it all’ on women’s careers

Organisations need to change how they develop female talent in order to attract and retain leaders into the future as many women struggle to maintain a work-life balance, and the pandemic has made it worse

The additional caring responsibilities taken on by women has magnified the challenges of career progression while maintaining a work-life balance. Picture: Getty Images/Westend61

There has probably never been a time when women didn’t carry most of the burden in terms of domestic responsibilities. The lack of recognition and adequate support for care-related work is nothing new.

But as women are now also trying to navigate and progress their careers, the incompatibility of living up to old-school organisational expectations, while also running a family and a household, has reached unsustainable levels.

Women are resourceful and resilient; they mostly find ...