Link: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21974217-36398,00.html

Stephen Lunn reports: WOMEN who return to work part-time after having children have more difficulty juggling career and family than mothers in full-time jobs.

"It is a double whammy for part-time working women - their jobs aren't the best career option and more is expected of them on the home front," said Barbara Pocock, head of the Centre for Work + Life at the University of South Australia.

Professor Pocock conducted in March the first national survey of work-life outcomes, called Work, Life and Time, polling 1435 male and female Australians.

The results, to be released yesterday, "confirm that long work hours have a negative effect both on the individual in terms of health and in the broader context of friendships and community involvement".

The Work, Life and Time report findings are interesting reading, especially if you are looking for guidance in terms of developing an organisation into one where this wealth of expertise who is ready willing and able to participate, but who finds the working conditions too restrictive...
lets get creative about how we can address such matters!