Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

Abstract

Wondering if they ought to juggle family and work in the ways they do, women often fall into the trap of self-blame. Psychologist, Faye J. Crosby, argues that the most critical difficulties are not, as they generally suppose, conflicts between life roles, but unfairnesses within each one. The surprising reality is that the admittedly hard effort to juggle demonstrably benefits women and their families. Crosby offers hop to those who seek to minimize the strain of role-combination without sacrificing the advantages.