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Why isn't working part-time the solution for employers wishing to retain high potential female employees who, in turn, seek to maintain their careers whilst balancing family and work responsibilities? This paper canvasses the issues surrounding women working part-time in professional and managerial positions, as a means of reconciling their work and family life while attempting to progress their careers. The paper represents the first stage in a research project investigating how employers retain these high potential employees through flexible work practices. The paper commences with an overview of the penetration of part time professional and managerial women into the Australian workforce before moving to discuss the continuing issues which vex their career development, including: the lack of employer provided training; a perception of part-timers' lack of commitment to the job; the marginalisation of their roles and their treatment by co-workers. The paper concludes that the issues facing part-time professional and managerial women in 2007 persist despite the abundance of earlier international research on the issue.

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