The news in the UK and US at the moment is full of editorial about the continued inequalities for women in the workplace. In the US, the number of women working outside the home has slipped in the last five years. In the UK, women continue to lag behind men in the salary stakes.
The truth is, for most of us there just aren’t enough hours in the day to have it all. Most of the working mothers I know who successfully fit their career around their children have the full support of their partner, who shares at least half the work with them.
To rise to the very top of the tree often means working rigid hours. But many women and men these days don’t actually want to get to the top; they just want a career that pays decent wages, gives them job satisfaction and fits in with all their other commitments, be they children, hobbies or just wanting to relax now and then!
A good education is essential to give women and men more choice in the workplace. Online study can play a role in this. Accounting is a perfect example. A man or woman working in finance can earn accounting qualifications over a period of time, perhaps allowing them to take on either full-time, or more lucrative accounting jobs when the time is right.
Accounting is a career that affords great flexibility, so mothers or fathers who want to work from home or to flexible hours could do a lot worse than online study in accounting.
In my view, flexibility is the key to working and education in the future. If getting to the top means no flexibility, then I don’t want to go there.
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