1. Identify pressures you feel and raise awareness among friends and family.

2. Consider job-sharing with your spouse, alternating career time with child rearing time and more equal distribution of housework.

3. Volunteer yourself as a mom on school career day, whether or not you work outside the home, and talk about integration as part of your job.

4. Approach your employer with suggestions for job-sharing, flex-time or telecommuting.

5. Join an advocacy organization like Mothers & More, The National Partnership for Work and Families or the Families and Work Institute.

6. Lobby local and national politicians to increase paid family leave and provide excellent, affordable childcare.