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The 4 Golden Rules for a Successful Home Office

It is perhaps to make room for commitments, such as managing domestic responsibilities, or to chase one’s dream vocations like writing or music that more and more people around the world are starting to give working from home a shot than ever before. New-age lifestyles, evolving work styles, the emergence of working housewives and the advent of technology are creating a prolific environment for home entrepreneurship today. And with passing time, the many advantages of this working style are emerging. For instance, working from home utilises travel time more effectively.
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4 Steps to Find Time for Things That Matter

While being a working mother is far from an easy job, women can implement several ideas to make life much less stressful in a situation that requires a balancing act.

By delegating some of their household chores, sticking to a planned schedule and making the most of any free time on their hands, working mothers and wives can, to a large extent, control the unpredictable elements of life and achieve some sense of work-life balance.
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Get Ready for Your Second Career Innings

Most women who have stayed home for a considerable length of time, whether to raise their children or nurse the elderly, face a variety of mental and emotional obstacles when it comes to returning to work. They question whether they will be able to add adequate value to the world by being out there as much, as they will at home.

They are insecure because they have been off the work wagon for so long – they wonder if their skills are antiquated and whether they will be relevant in the present job market.
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Being an ENTREPRENEUR: Why franchising is the perfect entrepreneurial opportunity for housewives

Around the world, more and more women are opting for the franchise business model due to the numerous flexibilities it offers them, along with strong potential for financial independence and growth. So much so that women are, in fact, becoming the most targeted groups when it comes to franchise business programmes.

An Emerging Opportunity
The rise of women in this niche of business has been documented by significant research.
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4 Tips To Encourage Your Wife To (Re)Start Her Career

Given rising prices, it has become essential for families to have multiple bread winners today. It is therefore unsurprising that India’s Tier 1 and 2 towns are gradually seeing more women entering the workforce. Success stories of female entrepreneurs who have challenged the odds (several of them Dalits) is inspiring, to say the least. Housewives, who are realising that careers aren’t exclusively for men, are entering the workforce in droves; not only to earn an extra income, but also to explore their own identities.
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Mom-preneurs Bag Meaningful Work with SmartQ

New Delhi-based SmartQ started out with a simple ambition. The company hoped to provide children aged between 5 and 12 with a form of life skills-based supplementary education. SmartQ programmes are designed to spur children’s natural thirst for learning through engagement and analyses. By focusing on knowledge-sharing through fun and engaging means rather than rote-style education following curricula- and assessment-bound structures,
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The Birth of SmartQ

SmartQ was a brainchild of Nandini and Rajnikant Rao, veterans in the realm of education. The couple was driven by aspirations to supplement curricular education with something that would not just prove invaluable during the child’s developmental years, but later, in adult life as well. The focus was on shaping successful personalities, and not just scoring a few extra marks in a school exam. Their ambitions culminated in the birth of SmartQ in 2009.
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Article 1: Super Work-Life Balance Tips for SmartQ’s Superwomen

With more and more Indian women joining the work-force, there is a need to reassess and identify effective ways for women to cope with the stresses of work and family. A quick search on Google throws up loads of information on the growing significance of work-life balance. Several businesswomen live by smart work-life mantras that require a fair amount of commitment, while others insist that the aspect of balance is a myth, and the best one can hope to achieve is a work-life fit.
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Super Work-Life Balance Tips for SmartQ’s Superwomen

With more and more Indian women joining the work-force, there is a need to reassess and identify effective ways for women to cope with the stresses of work and family. A quick search on Google throws up loads of information on the growing significance of work-life balance. Several businesswomen live by smart work-life mantras that require a fair amount of commitment, while others insist that the aspect of balance is a myth, and the best one can hope to achieve is a work-life fit.
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Superwomen: Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives

SmartQ Superwomen is an attempt to unravel the stories of rightful role models, not only for women, but for people everywhere – stories of underdogs, small fish, who have risen against the odds to carve their names on the milestones of history, where they will forever remain.

By retelling these stories, we hope to highlight that ambition and determination are the only assets that are really required to reach a goal, and indeed, make a difference.
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One for all; all for one

A group of semi-literate housewives who started by rolling out papads from their terraces would never have dreamed that their venture would one day employ thousands. What started as a humble attempt to buy out a loss-making business is a thriving Rs. 650 crore-plus cooperative today. Its success has defied the notion that a Gandhian approach to enterprise would never work, and shown that cooperatives can in fact prosper. This group of women has given us a household name that will perhaps flourish for decades, not to mention, tremendous inspiration; proving that where there is a will,
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