'I felt like I wasn't being a good mum'
. I was often moody and stressed,’ she remembers.’Looking back, it shows the lengths we go to and the resilience we have when trying to provide the best for our family.’Later than year Kerry had set up her sleep specialist business, which aims to help both children and adults deal with sleep deprivation, and was able to quickly find work.
‘I really want to build my business,’ she says. ‘But my children are still my priority. It’s hard to know when to take the next leap with everything. What if I try and build it too quickly and the spinning plates start to drop?’ Maria Kordowicz was a single parent of young children for nine years, all the while plugging away at her career in academia.The 41-year-old describes life then as, ‘overwhelming, fatiguing, all-encompassing… It was a constant juggling act.’
Maria says she also encountered inflexible employers who hadn’t allowed for home working, would schedule 8am meetings and after hours networking sessions. ‘All things that were really difficult to work around the children,’ she points out. ‘I thought about what was happening to me that year,’ she recalls. ‘I had been working full time, had finished my PhD, was getting a, had toddlers at home, and was going through some health problems. I didn’t take it [the refused promotion] personally, but just thought how the system can heavily disadvantage single parents.’
‘There is a chronic lack of quality, flexible work that allows for career progression,’ says Jo Hardy of. ‘This means that too many single parents – the majority women – are stuck in roles beneath their skill set just so they can get the flexibility that they need to look after their children.’
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