Motherhood has always made it tricky for working women dedicated to full time jobs. In this episode, Lina Bilkha shares with Ladies Who Lead some staggering statistics that point to new mothers making tough choices and quitting their jobs due to parenthood. While this issue is an inevitable one that almost all working women face and unfairly struggle with, it isn’t entirely a problem that cannot be solved. Despite increasing the maternity leave from 3 to 6 months, companies still notice their female talent pool shrinking pre and post delivery.

Lina tells us how corporates can apply better policies to make it easier for women to juggle personal and professional duties. Guilt management programs, parental transition coaching and also mentoring girls at entry levels to plan for a career trajectory instead of merely short term job goals; these are all simple solutions that organizations can use to improve female employee retention. 

As working women, it becomes important to not only be aware of personal goals and ambitions, but also to know how to make use of policies in one’s workplace for a successful win-win result.