Working women, who try to navigate their career and family find it difficult to deal with guilt at home despite their effort to making sure that they parent their kids perfectly. Women guilt is a nagging sense of inadequacy and constant fear of failure due to the pressure placed on themselves to parent perfectly. According to a study conducted in 2020 by Pew Research Centre, “77% of adults believe that women face a lot of pressure to be “involved.” Being involved sounds like the unspoken belief that women should singlehandedly be all things to all people at all times except for themselves.”

This may seem exhausting due to the gender-role expectations. Some reasons for such guilt are;

When they shout at their children or lose temper due to their work or other reasons.

Women feel guilty when think about leaving their children.

Women feel guilty when there is an emotional distance because of work or relationship stress or dropping their kids off with the family for the weekend.

Social disapproval.

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