As a teacher of English, I spend most of my evenings and weekends evaluating student writing, planning class lessons and attending to administrative responsibilities.
Senator Toomey's staff in both Pennsylvania and Washington are taking an 'all hands on deck' approach in answering as many calls as possible while also attending to other responsibilities, such as helping veterans, seniors, and attending to legislative concerns.
At the same time, parents must also navigate the complicated systems of health insurance and childhood education, while attending to other responsibilities including maintaining their own mental and physical health and that of their families, and wrestling with the larger existential questions posed by their child's illness.
"The state already has a difficult enough time attending to its existing responsibilities due to a strained budget and limited personnel".
Many of you said there just aren't enough hours in the day to attend to your responsibilities, find some space for fun and spending time with important people, as well as getting a solid eight of sleep.
But there are also some hopeful signs for all women in these places: Women in Chamblee, for instance, earn more than women in the Atlanta area as a whole, and out-earn men in some lucrative, male-dominated fields, such as computers and engineering, with the help of female business entrepreneurs sensitive to the need for flexibility to attend to family responsibilities.
Participants expressed a desire to work less or more regular hours, or have time off to attend to these responsibilities.
Second, mothers and family members frequently do not understand the rationale for remaining for 48 hours and want to return home to avoid additional transportation costs, to attend to household responsibilities, and to participate in home-based rituals.
Possibly this is due to the need many parents report for TV to be used as a babysitter when they need to attend to other responsibilities and to have some 'time out' from their children [ 22, 41].
Work flexibility included variable work hours (i.e. the ability to change start and finish times) and family-friendly conditions including time-in-lieu arrangements and the ability to take time off to attend to caring responsibilities.
However, the reality was that women could not care for and nurture their own baby, or attend to domestic responsibilities if they followed the postoperative advice they had been given.
