Opinion: Is giving working mothers six months maternity leave tenable?

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Women must be ready to be involved in the business from the start and work tirelessly to make it work. I have run this business together with my husband from the 1980s and some men saw it as queer for a woman to be out there manning a stage even at night.

But now I am running a company with a fleet of 200 buses alone since my husband passed on.
Although I am a mother and grandmother, I would not be here if I took many months of maternity leave. I need a lot of time to manage my company. I have employed 250 workers, of which 25 are women.