Many women try to have it all: the perfect career, relationship and family. We look at whether you can juggle a career and family, how the government is helping, what companies can do to make life easier and the real experiences of working women.

New employment benefits
• The new employment act: is it helping working mums?
• How have employers reacted to it?
• Power to the parents: will it breed resentment?

Flexible working
• What are the benefits of flexible hours
• Researching flexible working
• Approaching your employer about it
• Flexible working: all you need to know

Life experiences
• Real women speak out about their lives
• Week in the life: nanniless working mum
• 'Losing motivation as a working mum'
• Do we have it easier than our mums?
• Have working women really progressed?
• Working mums at risk of too much guilt?

Ask the expert
• Can interviewers ask if I have children?
• Can I be forced to work full-time?
• Do I have to admit I'm pregnant?
• Can I be made redundant while on sick leave with PND?

Got a dilemma of your own? Ask our work rights expert
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