My word: Can work and family co-exist?

Every mother knows that they don’t need an actual workplace to have this conflict (Photo: Shutterstock)

The idea of work-family or work-life conflict usually appears to be a modern thing – something that occurred on the onset of industrialisation – when workers had to leave their families to spend endless hours toiling in industries.

The idea also seems to imply that it’s mostly women who have this conflict – because they were ‘never meant to be in the workplace in the first place’. They were meant to be at home, tending to the very families that were responsible for the conflict.