Professional women have a (47)______ challenge. Like their male (48)______, they must cope with the pressures of responsibilities, the problems of subordinates, and duty to corporate management.
But if they are married and/or have children, they must also cope with the demands of another career while caring for their rise within the corporate structure.
Women are entering the workforce in numbers that are making headlines. There are 36 million of them in business today, according to the American Business Women’’s Association, and they share a common worry: not enough time. The combination of what seems to be never-ending household responsibilities and on-the-job duties makes time a precious (49)______ .
Culture has (50)______ everyone, despite the growing ability of men and women to relate to one another as business equals, to believe that the home is the woman’’s responsibility. Unless she has a husband who shares equally in family responsibilities, she has two jobs to a male peer’’s one. Who ever asks a man how he manages to (51)______ marriage and family with a career
Studies show that employed women (52)______ get little help with the housework from their husbands. A study in the Chicago area, followed later by a national survey, found that women who work full time typically do more than 80 percent of the household chores.
To combine two (53)______ careers, a woman has to become an expert manager of her time. If she wants to compete successfully with her male counterparts, she must seek more (54)______ ways to perform her office and home (55)______ .
Actually, a woman has to be a better manager of her time both on and off the job than most of her male peers. In fact, she needs to be a master time planner to (56)______ her two jobs. Most women cannot take a filled briefcase home. A full-time job awaits them there.
Word Bank
A) efficient I) routines
B) coordinate J) digital
C) unique K) reputation
D) combine L) counterparts
E) commodity M) publicity
F) adapted N) restore
G) retired O) time-consuming
H) generally