When it comes to women and home... and career (?)

Now I am facing a quite interesting situation. From working full-time as consultant for the past ten years I am now full-time searching for my next move and challenge, enjoying (sometimes) the nice sunshine we have had for the past two weeks in Sweden (well, not enough actually!).
This morning I left my children at their respective pre-school and school. I receive a question/invitation for accompanying me second son's class to an outing next week. This is really nice indeed and I really enjoy it. What surprise me is that no one asked my boyfriend yesterday when he picked up the kids.

Is that understood already that mums ought to make it through their career (i.e. being successful) AND fixing all the other "all-around" activities related to the WHOLE family? Do not misunderstand me! I really do appreciate the offer and will probably answer yes to it (well, I am having a breakfast-seminar from 7:30am-9:00am and need to run back to the school but still enjoyable!). Now I am left for the next 48 hours with three children, one appointment at the surgery specialist for the eye for my second son, one swimming lesson for the older one, one meeting with teacher and a lunch-meeting tomorrow at the same time as I have a conference-sessions to attend during the day and the running-number of my boyfriend to pick up the same day...

How many hands and brains and legs does a mum have? More than any other "normal" person? Well obviously yes. Have to keep track on every family member agenda (and is really well reminded in case she forget something!), prepare and arrange for the children activities (as this has to be often done few months in advance to even think about having a place!), same for adults activities (which might be more spontaneous but still)...

So my thoughts are quite simple: is there any plan to make it easier for a woman to get her life's journey more enjoyable? I do enjoy having all those tasks. However when I feel like "No, not today", well other are still expecting me to behave as usual... Tricky thing isn't it?

Will be attending a breakfast "seminar" next week discussing on culture and health... interesting topic indeed, let's see what's going out of it!