Being seen at the office from early in the morning to late at night is positively viewed although work performance may not improve with longer working hours (Peetz et al., 2003). The inflexibility of such work requirements places women with dependent children at a disadvantage. For example males with traditional ideology believe that they are entitled to have their wives perform a disproportioned amount of unpaid domestic labour (Sanchez, 1994). Hence, women are often viewed as being responsible for the rearing and caring of family, supported by the male ‘breadwinner’ and need not to be as committed to their professional career as men (Tharenou et al., 1984).