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Kathryn Flett: For mothers, Having It All means Doing It All

Source: guardian.co.uk Society

Nov 08, 2009

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Whether they're working or staying at home, all mothers know that behind the dream of Having It All is the reality of Doing It All

Women admitting they can't Have It All are becoming as much of a middle-class cliché as the Bugaboo in the back of the Jeep, but who could have predicted the speed at which it would happen?

While all working mothers live with their "failure" to be both the "perfect" employee and parent on a daily basis (and try to sleep it off on Sundays), others may only admit to a perceived "failure" (it isn't) with guilt (it's always with guilt) as they hand in their notice and the seductive mirage of infinite quality time with their offspring shimmers on the horizon, while yet more may only do so a few years down the line when, having Just Said No to high-flying professional careers, they feel they've sold themselves short even as they construct a scale Tate Modern for the toddler out of Play-Doh.

So for every woman fulfilled by her brave choice not to work – brave because she may have been defined if not by her career then by the fact she

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