Opinion: Choosing part-time work helped to keep me sane
Late last year, I was offered my dream job – serving on the executive team of an influential NGO reporting directly to the impressive female CEO.
Yet I knew that early morning phone calls and late night emails were unavoidable in a senior role. I would be tapping out texts as I made my children breakfast and returning to my desk after they were asleep. I would be too exhausted in the evening to ask them about their day, let alone read them a story.
But it was this sentence that halted me: “[We need to] stop this time-honoured tradition of educating women, getting them into jobs, training and developing them, then sort of letting them go off into a minor part-time workforce if they have a career break for caring responsibilities.”