India, Aug. 1 -- Now I understand why working mothers leave their jobs", said my friend, who has a son, over a phone call from India. She was one of my closest friends growing up and I was talking to her after more than half a decade. She used to be a very ambitious girl and naturally, I was rather taken aback by her statement. "What happened? How did your views change?", I asked, to which she replied, "Well, isn't it obvious, a baby happened followed by the pandemic." Due to the pandemic, Aakriti (name changed) had been working from home for the last three months, while home-schooling her four-year-old son and performing additional domestic chores. Her husband, on the other hand, is both ill-equipped for and disinterested in performing dom...