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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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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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