As a mother of two girls, I care deeply about gender equality. Not just because I want to protect my daughters from the challenges faced by recent generations of women, but because my dream for them is a happier, kinder, more inclusive world.
In this piece, I want to share how we can all lean into supporting a diverse leadership for the future, which will ultimately result in a more prosperous, diverse and equitable world for all of us.
I will never forget when meeting a male investor in his glamourous office, he asked me if my motivation for launching my business was boredom.
This came at a time when both of my girls were under three years old. I was missing them desperately and my family was making huge sacrifices to allow me to leave my well-paid corporate job to launch TAINA.
No words can describe the emotions that went through me at that moment, and I must admit that I did cry on my way home from work that day, feeling embarrassed by my emotional fragility. At that moment, I promised myself that I would do everything in my power to ensure my girls would never experience any prejudice based on their gender.
Asian Woman Leadership 