Revealed: What women really want most | News.com.au
A NEW survey reveals many mums are opting for a healthy family life instead of a career.
Women are shifting from a "perfectionist" attitude and rate their family, spending time with friends and exercising as more important than their career, a survey suggests.
The results of a national study of almost 2300 women, commissioned by parenting website Kidspot show three quarters of respondents aged between 18 and 65 believe family is the single most important thing in their life.
Pursuing their career finished last in a list of priorities that included seeing friends, keeping fit, further study and community work.
Jenni Colwill president of 2020Women, an organisation that promotes gender equality, said while the emphasis on family was not surprising, the results suggested women were "disengaged" in other areas and this was not the case.
"We've got this opinion that women have to do everything, the paid and the unpaid work, the family responsibilities and I'm not sure that has necessarily changed," she said. "I think what you see now is women who are more assertive, when they get annoyed with the workplace, they're more likely to express their dissatisfaction and leave."
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