Women who are mothers and mostly gripped with guilt. For humans, guilt is the most crippling of emotions. This explains why women find it hard to deal with guilt in regards to raising their kids.

In a recent event, where we celebrated 30 years of working mothers, many women mentioned that this emotion of guilt which was discovered thirty years ago, is still dominant.

Here are some truths about working mothers:

1. Kids are always first. No matter what, working mom’s first priority is to take care of her kids.

2. We work for money: Even though, we love our careers, some women need to work to make ends meet for a family. They chose to work because they need to make money.

3. We like our work: Some of us like what we do for a living and don’t feel the need to quit.

The question is : if we are still guilty after 30 years, what does the future hold for us?

My conversations with women who are Gen Y mothers suggests that they don’t dismiss motherhood, but embrace their strengths and use those to change the workplace, reaping from it a greater sense of fulfillment than ever before.

I can’t wait for what changes we will see in the next 10 years…