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She could be your wife. She could be your friend. And chances are, she could be you.
Twenty stories of the brilliant, maddening, exhausting lives of women, inside and outside of our professional spaces.
Many of them are the women we call “missing,” the women who broke academic records in a new India, entered our workplaces with high hopes and then dropped out of the workforce. A few of them are the intrepid pioneers of new ways of working, building careers that are changing the very notion of how, where and when work is done.
All of them are women who are charting their own unique paths and showing the rest of us that there is no one way to live and no one way to work.
In these stories, we will listen to these women, visit their dilemmas, understand their choices and revel in their successes.
We will come away informed and inspired.
Pick this book up because you care. Pick it up because these are good stories.
Shreya Prakash, Deepa Narayanaswamy, Rashmi Rammohan
Deepa, Rashmi and Shreya are the three women behind FlexiBees (www.flexibees.com) and the co-authors of this book.
Friends and batchmates from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore 2008, they went on to build successful careers in leading organizations like Unilever, P&G, KPMG and Aptech. Keeping in touch with each other, they realized something was deeply amiss when Deepa, having taken a career break due to her mother’s terminal illness and a young child to care for, found it impossible to get back to work in a role that did justice to her past accomplishments.
They started FlexiBees in 2017 to help qualified women professionals return to work in aspirational and meaningful careers, through flexibility, which they believe is one of the biggest unlocks for caregivers to have fulfilling careers while being able to prioritize other key responsibilities.
Over the years FlexiBees has worked with more than 550 organizations from across the world and helped thousands of women make the journey back to work. They have helped create and normalize a new way of working and living, for both people and businesses.
In their spare time and between the three of them they travel, read, co-parent, paint, write and watch bad romantic comedies. They dream of a world where each individual is able to design a life of choice, with meaningful work but also the time to pursue hobbies and passions, invest in relationships and be their happiest, most fulfilled selves.
