One of the core childhood memories of my life is my mother leaving home for work, at 5.30 am every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She found a teaching job in a high school when I was four and my sister was two. Classes began at 10 am. She had to catch a train at 6 am to reach on time for the first class, which meant she left home by 5.30 am to walk to the nearest railway station, mostly because she could not afford a rickshaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She commuted for three hours, up and down, every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is what I remember \u2013 every single day, my sister and I would cry in unison at the top of our voices from 5 am until she left the house, because we did not want her to leave us at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the painful reality of many working women. Every day, they experience separation from their children, spending many hours in a stressful commute to work, getting hardly any time to spend with the most important people in their lives in their developmental phase, because economic realities are harsh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that is why I love remote work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am proud that many of my colleagues who lead various teams in LawSikho and SkillArbitrage are women with young children, but don\u2019t have to go through what my family and I experienced in the early 1990s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For me, it feels like a personal victory when yet another woman conquers the world of remote work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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