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Let the world think that a female becomes weak after being a mother. Let them forget us, but we can make our own way.
Sometimes I look back to analyse myself. My career path was a very smooth one. The desire of earning in 5 figures, reaching at the top, travelling and recognition; I achieved everything in my 10 years of work life. But then one day, I decided to leave my job as I had to take care of my little one. I thought life will be easy as I would be doing only one thing. But I proved myself wrong. As the days passed, I started to feel inferior to those women who went to office. I started missing my 5 figures salary, office chitchat, work, everything.
I felt myself detached from everything except for my daughter. Somewhere, I could feel a special bond growing in between both of us. A year passed, I decided to move back to the workforce but was lest aware of what I was going to face. Every company I cleared the interview, I was finally rejected on the basis that how shall I manage my daughter and work as my husband stayed out of the country. I could not convince them that it is all up to me to manage, but I failed. It only gave me an impression that once a mother, you become good for nothing for the world.
I was moving closer to depression, when one day at a function that held at my daughter’s school, I wrote a poem in a competition. When I read the poem in front of everyone, they were all dumbstruck and then everyone applauded. After a long time, I felt as if I achieved something again. I decided to take up writing. I started searching the internet and landed on many parenting platforms. I started to share my real-time experiences with my daughter as blogs. Time passed and I got recognised as a blogger. I made a collection of those blogs and converted them into a book. I became a published author of my first book ‘A little girl and her big world’. I was back to my social network. I updated my work on LinkedIn and all my ex-colleagues congratulated telling me that I am multitalented, as I have had shifted from an HR professional to an author. And then there was no looking back, writing and writing more became my passion and my bread and butter. I was ranked among the top 10 most beloved bloggers among 18000 for the year 2018 by a recognised parenting platform.
Let the world think that a female becomes weak after being a mother. Let them not give us a job after a break. Let them forget us, but we can make our own way just the way I made because talent cannot be hidden. So, if I say that I am multitalented, then am I wrong?
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Neena was the sole caregiver of Amma and though one would think that Amma was dependent on her, Neena felt otherwise.
Neena inhaled the aroma that emanated from the pan and took a deep breath. The aroma of cumin interspersed with butter transported her back to the modest kitchen in her native village. She could picture her father standing in the kitchen wearing his white crisp kurta as he made delectable concoctions for his only daughter.
Neena grew up in a home where both her parents worked together in tandem to keep the house up and running. She had a blissful childhood in her modest two-room house. The house was small but every nook and cranny gave her memories of a lifetime. Neena’s young heart imagined that her life would follow the same cheerful course. But how wrong she was!
When she was sixteen, the catastrophic clutches of destiny snatched away her parents. They passed away in a road accident and Neena was devastated. Relatives thronged her now gloomy house and soon it was decided that she should be married off.
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Picture this: A seasoned executive at the peak of her career suddenly grapples with hot flashes and sleep disturbances during important meetings. She also battles mood swings and cognitive changes, affecting her productivity and confidence. Eventually, she resigns from her job.
Fiction? Not really. The scenario above is a reality many women face as they navigate menopause while meeting their work responsibilities.
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