Managing it all. (the stress of multiple roles)

MANAGING IT ALL

Remember that self-assured Superwoman with brief-case in one hand, skillet in the other, who danced across your TV screen several years ago? The one who could "bring home the bacon, fry it up in the pan--and never let [her husband] forget [he's] a man?"

"She was an improvement over those other women in television commercials who went around squeezing toilet paper and grieving over static cling," says Pat Roessle Materka, author of Time In, Time Out, Time Enough. "But the message women got from the media was that we can have--and handle--it all!" Unfortunately, trying to mesh a number of roles--career woman, wife and mother--can lead to …