Unit D Blog #31

Many professions come standard with the difficulty of balancing work and family life. This balance is often times seen where certain biases come into play concerning women and what they are supposed to do when they have children and they work as lawyers and such. Jobs have obvious problems with men or women wanting to spend too much time away from the office, because this leads to them not being able to handle all of the cases that they are working on or even sometimes results in the loss of a case or a client because of the lawyers family life. Their are certain ways to attempt to fix this problem so that the employer can be happy with the amount of work that the employee commits too, and also so that the parents of children can be able to spend time with their families. i believe that jobs need to incorporate more work that can be done from home into the work week. This way, instead of spending over 40 and 50 hours a week in the office the employee can be doing this busy work from home, and will give them the opportunity to spend some quality time with their families, which is arguably the most important part of life for somebody who has children to attend to. This option needs to be readily accessible for mothers who are working in the law field. Often times these females are left out in the cold when the issue arises of a family life. The employer will say that the woman has to choose one or the other, family or work, and this is completely unjust. The balancing of home and work life is a very hard balance to maintain, but with a little help and cooperation from the employers, life could be a lot more simple for all of the parties involved.