Mumbai, April 16
Actress Kalki Koechlin has talked about the pressures working moms face to balance career and family, often managing both professional duties and household responsibilities. She also spoke about the need for shared parenting and greater awareness of gender roles at home.
Asked as a working mother, how does she balance the emotional needs of her child with the demands of her career, especially in a world that still puts pressure on women to do it all?
Kalki told, “Yeah, there’s a lot of pressure to do it all. And the thing is, sometimes I can choose to be a supermom and do it all—there are days when I do just that.”
The actress said that she would wake up "at 6 A.M., take the dogs for a walk, prepare the oats and almond pancake her daughter loves for her school tiffin, send her off on the bus, get on a flight, and work all day."
“During my lunch break, I record a bedtime story so my husband can play it for her at night. Then I get back to work. In another short break—maybe 20 minutes—I squeeze in a yoga routine, then it’s back to work again. I wrap up around 8 P.M., get stuck in Bombay traffic, reach home at 10, wind down with a Netflix show, and finally go to bed around midnight.”
She asserted that “if you try to do that every single day without a break, you're going to burn out.”