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Even the prime minister is caught up with the campaign to reconcile work and family.
Scandinavian countries appear to have found ways, such as enhanced child-care facilities, to make it easier for women to reconcile work with raising children.
The workforce is ageing and people are increasingly preoccupied with work-life balance and the ability to reconcile work and caring responsibilities.
A service-intensive welfare state enabling families to reconcile work and care would help to complete the gender revolution under way in western societies since the 1970s.
Mothers were more likely to have career breaks, switch to part-time work, choose jobs that help to reconcile work and family – which are usually lower paying – and miss out on promotions, said Kristen Sobeck, an economist at the ILO.
Besides, workers cannot rely on an adequate childcare system to reconcile work and family.
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One woman approached her and asked, "How do you reconcile working at Playboy with your support of feminist issues?" Hefner responded by outlining the "political stands" which Playboy has taken over the years.
As author Miriam Zoll argued in 2013, "In a world where 'responsible' women freeze their eggs... the complicated problem of reconciling work and family is theirs alone to resolve".
Attention must also be paid to reconciling work and family life.
One reason for this could be the difficulty for some female nursing professionals of reconciling work with raising a family.
Future analyses of working conditions should consider factors more specifically affecting women workers, such as physical workloads, reconciling work and family, relations with clients and sexual harassment.
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