I am the type of person who spends a lot of time planning for
the future. When I was 16, I developed a ten year plan: Attend
Queen's University for the commerce program, move out to
British Columbia to go to UBC for law school, then move back to
Toronto to work in corporate law at a large law firm, and
eventually make partner. That, to me, was what success looked
like.
In my pursuit of these goals, I had come to accept the fact that
to achieve this, I would likely have to work harder and make more
sacrifices than most men with similar aspirations. One of the most
prominent issues in the conversation about the challenges that
women face in the workplace is the choice between family and
career. Although I am still in the early stages of my career,
having only just completed my undergrad, like many other ambitious
women, I have already found myself questioning how my career will
be affected if I decide to one day start a family? Similarly, how
will my career affect my
