The female breadwinners survival guide By Jenny Garrett
* Struggling to balance a budding entrepreneurial business with being Mom? * Torn between family commitments and work? * Thrust into the role of breadwinner when your partner has been laid off, retired or become ill? * Non-existent work life balance? You are not alone, around 40% of women in the US are the breadwinner, and the number is growing. There’s been a lot of talk about the ‘End of Men’ and women being ‘The Richer Sex’, but it’s not all power suits and top jobs. Rhonda, a successful businesswoman, working in a male dominated environment, with a child under one year old sums up the challenge of being the breadwinner eloquently: “By being a working career woman or career mom, I’m trying to get the best out of both worlds. I’m trying to be true to who I am, not to who other people want me to be or what people think people I should be. And that is difficult” Jenny Garrett, executive coach and author of Rocking Your Role, the ‘how to’ guide to success fo