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Following the birth of her daughter in 2015, Aarthi Kannan decided to end her successful stint as vice president of a multinational finance company in London. Searching for the middle path that would keep her somewhere between her career goals and motherhood, Kannan used her passion for mathematics to keep her ambitions alive. The Bangalore-based former software engineer became a work-from-home teacher on the online start-up teaching platform Cuemath. Like countless other women, who walk the tightrope between parenting and careers, Kannan too had made her choice.