Our son Burhan is five years old, and he&#39s learning to read and do basic maths.我们的儿子Burhan现年5岁，而他正在学习阅读和作基础运算。Here&#39s another confession:这是我另一个忏悔：I have found that our daughter is actually more successful at teaching him these skills than I am.我发现我们的女儿实际上比起我更成功地在教他这些技能。It started as a game, but

In my previous job, well before my current firm,在进入我现在这间公司之前，在我的工作中，I was working with a man, we will call John.我与一个男人共事，我们称他约翰好了。I had teamed up with John and was working hard,我跟约翰组成一组，很努力地工作，hoping he would notice how great I was希望他能注意到我很能干。and that he would come to support my case to make partner

You see, as a young woman in these situations, you have two options.你们看，作为一个年轻女人遇到这些状况，你有两个选择。You can either decide to internalize these negative messages that are being thrown at you,你可以决定去内化这些被丢在你身上的负面讯息，to let them make you feel like a failure,任凭他们让你自我贬低，like success is way too hard to ever achie

As I got my Bachelor&#39s and PhD in electrical engineering,当我电子工程方面取得学士与博士学位，did R And D in the UK, then consulting in the Middle East,在英国从事研发，此外在中东咨询，I have always been in male-dominated environments.我总是处在男权至上的环境。Truth be told, I have never found a role model I could truly identify with.老实说，我从未找到能

Faced with a patriarchal society, they have found that by helping each other out, all benefit.面对这个父权社会，她们发现，藉由帮助彼此，所有人都能得到好处。In my previous job, I was the most senior woman in the Middle East,在我前一份工作中，我在中东是最资深的女性，so one could think that investing in my network of female colleagues couldn&#39t bring

Time stood still for a long while,好长一会儿，时间彷佛静止了，and all I could think and repeat in the chaos of my brain was:而在混乱中，我脑中想的与重复的是：&quotYou can forget about that partnership, Leila.你可以忘记那个伙伴关系，蕾拉。It&#39s just never going to happen.&quot这样下去不会有什么结果的。It took me a couple of days to fully absorb this incide

One thing to know about the Middle East关于中东需要知道的一件事,is that nearly every family has access to affordable domestic help.就是几乎每个家庭都能找到可负担费用的家务代理。The challenge therefore becomes how to recruit effectively.难题因此变成如何有效地召募(家务代理人)。Just like I would in my business life,就如同在我的商业生活中，I have based the selection o

&quotMom, who are these people?&quot“妈妈，这些人是谁?”It was an innocent question from my young daughter Alia around the time when she was three.这是来自我小女儿Alia的天真的疑问，大概是在她三岁的时候。We were walking along with my husband in one of Abu Dhabi&#39s big fancy malls.我们正与我丈夫走在一块，在阿布扎比的某一间大型豪华购物中心中。Alia was peering at a