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What if women were not their worst enemy?

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It is no revelation that women wear multiple hats, and this is before they even embark on raising a family. Wearing these multiple hats - professional, business woman, educator, primary caregiver - can sometimes get overwhelming even for seasoned mothers and professionals.

It does not help that the society has a way of judging us by evaluating, unfortunately, very superficial metrics that do not really speak to the heart of the kind of parents or professionals that we truly are.
Often, this judgment is misplaced but it can leave the kind of lasting damage that reinforces certain labels, specifically that women are ‘less than’ in the various roles they undertake.

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