How My Personal Experience of Being a Working Mum Has Influenced the Launch of EVEN.

The personal experience I’ve had as a working mum, as an executive, as an academic, and as a business woman have profoundly shaped the mission behind EVEN.

It has made me deeply aware of the daily juggle of life, of combining caring and working, and of handling a full-blown tantrum before 8.30am and then calmly walking into an executive meeting.

It has also highlighted the decision points that working mums face in many parts of their journey:

How much parental leave?

When do I return?

How much do I work? How much does my partner work?

How much can I afford to work, factoring in the cost of childcare? How much care can I access? What’s the support system around me?

I have lived through many of these decisions and I have watched my friends and colleagues grapple with them.

Recently, I appeared on the Future Fit Leadership Podcast to share the connection between my personal story and the story of co-founding EVEN. with Ellen.

If you are curious about the EVEN. founding story, and if you’d like to delve into the connection between the personal and the political, including the cost of childcare, the uneven burden on women, and my ideas about what can be done to solve for gender equity, please listen here.