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Women and Work
Still Frazzled After All These Years?
By Kelly Burgess
to provide support to other women in her situation, but she still feels frustrated at how insurmountable this problem seems to be. Not only, she points out, are men simply not as involved in child care issues, but women often have little sympathy for each other's choices.
"One of the biggest stresses for me is that it seems like women are at war in a way that fathers are not," says Dickenson. "Women who choose to work get some of their most severe criticism from other women. Men don't get that from any quarter."
The Final Word
There may not be much anyone can do about a judgmental neighbor who thinks you're a terrible person because you put your kid in daycare. Aside from that opinion, women have made great strides in the workplace. After all, it was just in 1981 that actress Lynn Redgrave was fired from her television sitcom for breastfeeding her daughter on the set. Now all but the most intractable employers will make some attempt to accommodate a nursing mother. 
Maria Bailey, founder of BlueSuitMom.com
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