There are important but insufficiently explored problems in modern psychology - the peculiarities of combination of professional and family roles of a woman and the factors being conducive to the settlement of role conflict. 168 working women were interviewed in accordance with authors special methodics. It is possible to state that life situations of women having slight middling and strong role conflicts are quite different. For the last group it was typical to have been strongly oriented to the family or to the career, to be dependent on different persona matters and on one's associates opinions. Some measures reducing role conflict of a working woman are proposed.