Women who juggle between a family and career are steadily on the rise of late. These women return after having a baby, and now want to focus on both home and career. They're willing to make sacrifices on both fronts, but usually end up with enormous guilt and stress. They work lesser hours than their colleagues at work and spend less time with their baby at home compared to non-working mothers.

And yet, they have absolutely no time left over for themselves. They're caught up in a vicious circle of work and home. At work when they leave early, they are resented, and at home, they don't get enough time to meet their child's requirements.

It is a biological fact that only women have babies and it is a sociological fact that for a long time only men worked in managerial positions. Management has traditionally been organized and run by men for men. Today, more and more women are entering this area, but there has been no shift in organizational methods and practices to accommodate their differing needs. Thus a number of potential high fliers are lost who choose the mommy-track and get de-motivated because their new needs are just not being met.

Lets look at this scenario in a different way! This doesn't mean that things can't change. As more and more women step out to work, old management practices will have to give way to accommodate their needs. The organization that doesn't change will lose these skilled, creative employees who will be snapped up by competitors who do change. As the economy becomes more knowledge and service based, the cost of these losses will soon become unacceptably high.