Working Moms Tear Down Office Walls

Women are reshaping the workday by interweaving jobs and parenting, thanks to technology, entrepreneurial smarts, and changing attitudes

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May 4, 2005 at 4:00 AM UTC

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Laine Caspi, CEO of Parents of Invention, begins her morning at 6:30 a.m., when she reads e-mail. Then she gets her 7-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter ready for school. Both kids are out the door by 9 a.m., and then Caspi puts in an additional three hours of company time.

Caspi picks up the kids between noon and 3 p.m. and spends the rest of the day juggling cell-phone calls and mothering chores like helping the children with homework and chauffeur duty to tae kwon do. She's usually still answering e-mail after the kids go to bed.