The point is that being a mum, whether you are working or not working, is no easy feat. Shouldn't we be supportive of each other regardless of our choice (or non-choice) about whether to work or not? At the very least, surely we shouldn't pass judgment on each other.

This morning I got up at 6 o'clock with the baby. I then went straight to the kitchen to begin preparing food for my eight children for the day ahead....

Since its release just over two weeks ago, much has been said and written about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will To Lead. I am not one of Sheryl's haters, in fact, having had the opportunity to witness her speak on a number of occasions while we both worked at Google, I can testify that she is a truly inspirational woman. However, I feel that her story only represents one type of woman, the successful woman in business who also has children.

One in seven women are made redundant after maternity leave amid growing levels of discrimination, a new study has found. One in 10 women surveyed ...

For those experiencing feminism's unintended consequences - childless, working women of my generation who, just like Friedan's housewives, are wondering if there's 'something more' - it can feel like the pendulum swung too far the other way.

Suddenly, I've become a private school parent because I'm a mom who wants to work. With the hour and a half a parent gets to themselves from a state school nursery, I realized that those parents don't work.

I read recently that to have a child is to forever have your heart walk around outside your body. I would like to add to this rather lovely sentiment...

Four and a half months in and I am finding having a decent telephone conversation hard enough, never mind a full night's sleep. So why would a mere mortal mother bother to compare herself with a mumpreneur?

Some women may abandon breastfeeding because they have been given insufficient support - and if so that certainly needs to change. But many other women may choose to stop or reduce breastfeeds because of the physical burden,

Clearly, biologically women's bodies have an obvious function: baby-making. Throughout history this baby-making facility of the female anatomy has become entwined with the nurturing of the whole family, and feminists (men and women) fought for a woman's right to have a career, if they so chose to have one.

Given that 72% of people in the UK still think that "you cannot work a senior career on a part time basis" it's perhaps not surprising that people who do often keep the fact from their colleagues.

Dear Nick Clegg, I'm sure you love your child fervently, and want only the best for them. Like most parents, you're quite sure your choice is the right one, and this wouldn't necessarily matter quite so much, if you were 'like most parents'. But you're not: you're the deputy prime minister.

Even though I'm a hands-on parenting advocate, I accept that motherhood is hard. The hours are long, it's badly paid and it puts demands on you physically and emotionally that would have any other 'employer' up before the International Court of Human Rights. Time-out to 'be yourself' at work breaks up the intensity of full-time parenting.

Feminism has long been conflated with self-indulgent, over-entitled melancholy, but to me the difference is clear. The editor of Vogue, Alexandra Shu...

Happy Mother's Day to all you Modern Mummies out there. Here, for Mother's Day weekend, and is general celebrations of mums, is my affectionate spotters' guide to Modern Mummies.

Women are their own worst enemies when it comes to business, a new study has revealed after discovering female bosses are reluctant to employ women wi...

Spice Girl-turned-fashion-designer Victoria Beckham has hit out at critics who branded her "miserable" during her stint at New York fashion week by si...

Families who hire cleaners, babysitters and cooks could benefit from a new tax break proposal aimed at getting women back to work. The move, inspir...