Shattering the Glass-ceiling with Motherhood and Entrepreneurship

A woman clad in a sharp blazer with a baby in her arms is bound to make heads turn as she walks down the subway to work. Truth is, even after all these years of breaking stereotypes, women continue to be bound by some very strong ones. The range of emotions and moral obligations attached with motherhood make it one of the most binding phases of a woman’s life.  For a long time, child birth affected women’s employability as companies did not want to invest in employees that needed maternity leave and could be absent from the work place for long period of time. Even with the provision of paid maternity leave and other incentives, almost 45% women quit their jobs after child birth. As responsibilities mount post-childbirth, the burden of most of it falls on the woman that makes it almost impossible to continue work.  And so, a working mother had been a rare subject,