How are women doing after having kids? You spend years studying and working, building a career and an identity, and then you have children. Do you leave your job to take care of them? If you do, how does that feel?
Some women choose to step away and feel content with that decision. Others do it because they don’t have much choice, childcare, lack of support, or workplace pressure and that can be emotionally difficult. There’s often a mix of fulfillment and frustration, purpose and loss of self.
Some return to work later, some switch paths, and some don’t go back at all. There’s no single answer, and a lot depends on whether the decision was truly theirs and how much support they had.