The snippet of video footage showing the children of BBC freelancer Professor Robert Kelly's children coming into the room during a live interview is a reminder that men also have to balance their work responsibilities with those at home. That Kelly felt the need to explain the interruption in a follow-on interview shows we live in a society that is surprised when home matters affect our work lives. We continue to live under the illusion that success at work requires a trade-off with our non-work commitments and feel pressured to clock in as perfect beings, barely affected by family matters at home, lest they affect our chances of promotion. It is high time we realised that we are looking at this work-life balance incorrectly. Work life cannot be separated from our lives outside of work - there is just one life. Every day we each have a designated number of hours in which to attend to an assortment of tasks - at home, at work and within our communities. Instead of looking at this as...
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