New Delhi, March 13 -- A report, published by Ashoka University, reveals that 73 per cent of Indian women let go off their jobs after they have their first baby. Mom blogger Jyoti Srivastava, who is an engineer by profession, faced the same predicament after the birth of her son in 2019.

She used to design rockets for the Indian Army before she took a maternity break. After delivering her son, Srivastava wanted to restart her career, only to realise that she was overworked and underpaid in her previous job, that it wouldn't allow her to spend time with her son. It was then that Srivastava took the brave step of switching fields. She did her IYCF (Infant and Young Child Feeding) from Unicef and a certification course on child and maternal...