'We've Changed The World For Our Sons And Daughters'

One of India’s leading live talents, talk evangelists, first awardee of the Best Anchor Female, India, at the Live Quotient Awards and winner of the Bharat Nirman Award for her outstanding contribution to the field of anchoring, Gitikka Ganju Dhar, shares her experience of being a working mother, but more importantly, being able to strike the right balance between her duties to her daughter, as well as her career

- Gitikka Ganju Dhar

Being a mother is serious business. Being a professional anchor is also serious business. The fact of the matter is that women today don’t really need to choose between the two. I’m sure you’ve, at some point, come across Rudyard Kipling’s famous words, “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.” I believe that those words are in need of an update. The modern world has witnessed a shift and a new societal order solidifies itself, forever altering archetypal role definitions of that of a man and woman. There’s no doubt that many new shades of motherhood are emerging. From working mothers to the new world mompreneur, the world is definitely moving forward from the times that Kipling speaks of. And whether you’re ready for it or not, this is a reality that the world has to accept.

The fact that I am one too, is a reality I have recently woken up to! Indulge me when I say that working mothers or mompreneurs can be broadly classified into two categories, the ones who go to work purely due to economic constraints, and those whose drums beat to the tune of Beyonce’s Run the World (Girls). I believe that most women of today, belong to the latter category.