Laura's screening with Laura Weaser

Directed by Douglas McGrath. Out now on DVD and Blu-ray.

Since feminist movements in the 1970s-1980s, there has been the age old question of: can a women juggle career and family, or does she have to decide between the two?

Thankfully, I Don't Know How She Does It doesn't answer any of the questions and manages to set back the feminist movement 100 years.

Battle of the Sexes: SJP's Kate faces off against her male counterpart for the top job.

Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker or SJP) is a top financial executive, juggling a career that sees her travelling all over the country as well as providing her two children with ‘home baking' and quality time for her husband Richard (Greg Kinnear).

When the job of a lifetime, working with top-dog Jack Abelhammer (Pierce Brosnan) comes up, Kate's perfect balance of work-family life begins to unravel.

Asking the question: how does she do it? – that is, avoid making the choice between career and family – the film attempts to show us exactly how it can be done using comical situations of stress and chaos in all aspects of Kate's life.

I too, like many I am sure, have wondered: does having a successful career mean sacrificing family and children?

Unfortunately, what then plays out for the next 90 minutes is a demonstration of how to achieve such balance, before cutting your legs off in the final five minutes of the feature.

This film is an embarrassment and an insult to women, career orientated, family orientated or struggling to make both work.

Kate points out she needs to be like a man to handle her career and become the top dog that she is, comparing herself to her chauvinistic male workmate who takes clients out to ‘entertainment' ie strip clubs.

Working women = losing femininity.

In her family role, Kate is often shown as neglectful and absent, saying her young daughter resents her for being away, and she is shown constantly letting her down.

Also, her husband is often found neglected, particularly when it comes to balancing his career with her own.

Working women = bad mothers and wives.

Instead of answering the statement it asks, this film sets out to systematically destroy everything women have worked for – equality – by painting them as not being able to juggle both at all, that a choice has to be made, leaning towards favouring family over career. Because after all career is for the men according to this film.

Of course, you can't leave the women (who, might I remind you this film is targeting as a ‘rom-com') feeling mad about this, so throw on the tacky five minutes at the end to wrap up and show that she can in fact have both on her own terms.

Huh, well that didn't feel forced at all…

Re-reading this, I see my feminist side coming out, my heckles coming up and my claws coming out. But I'd like to think that after years of fighting for equality, being someone that wants to have a career and perhaps family way down the line, that this is possible.

I don't need Hollywood telling me to leave the big jobs for the men.

In the film's defence, as soon as I heard the premise of the film I immediately knew I wouldn't like this.

The idea that it is impossible and even surprising that a woman can hold down a high paying job and also raise a good family is frankly insulting.

The moral of the story? This film just doesn't do it.