A female CEO has apologized to every mother she has ever encountered in the workplace for 'silently slandering ' their commitment to their jobs . PowerToFly President Katharine Zaleski admitted , in a first-person piece for Fortune magazine , that she did n't realize how awful she had been - until she became a mother herself . The 34-year-old , who lives with her husband and daughter in Brooklyn , New York , recalled one instance where she made a silent presumption about a Time managing editor . Ms Zaleski presumed that she was 'too much of a mother ' to follow through on a partnership idea - based on the pictures of the editor 's children on her desk . Scroll down for video . PowerToFly President Katharine Zaleski ( pictured with her husband and daughter ) admitted , in a first-person piece that she had been horrible and did n't understand the position of working moms in the past - until she became one herself . PowerToFly President Katharine Zaleski admitted in an essay that she used to be a harsh critic of working moms during her time as an editor at Huffington Post and Washington Post . Ms Zaleski , a former editor at Huffington Post and The Washington Post in her twenties , wrote that she also judged women who could n't make it to last-minute team drinks - even though they would arrive at work two hours earlier the next day . She also did n't speak up when another female editor said they should fire a woman who was pregnant . Working 'late ' became an obsession , she said , in order to show commitment to her job - even though mothers in the office would typically skew their days much earlier . Ms Zaleski wrote in Fortune : 'For mothers in the workplace , it ’ s death by a thousand cuts – and sometimes it ’ s other women holding the knives . ' Soon after giving birth herself , Zaleski said that she believed her career was over and that she could n't imagine going back to the office for ten hours each day . Soon afterwards she met Milena Berry who wanted to start a company that would allow women to work from home in a range of jobs . PowerToFly was born . And that Time editor whom she silently wrote off ? Ms Zaleski explains that Cathy Sharick , mother-of-three , has now joined the business as executive editor . PowerToFly allows women to work from anywhere that suits them - from their home office to a coffee shop . Workers can take on full-time or part-time contracts , but as the company website states : 'We give you a lot of freedom and we expect a lot in return . ' Ms Zaleski said in several interviews this week that all the tools for moms to work remotely are already in place . Conference calls can be made on Skype , presentations shared on Google Docs , team planning completed on Jira . Women from 65 countries have joined the site to improve their chance at finding work - and have so far taken home a collective $ 1 million in pay , according to Ms Zaleski . The challenges are many , the co-founder wrote - and sometimes from career-driven , younger women who she described as 'hardliners ' about spending time in the office 'culture ' . She wrote : 'They don ’ t realize how that `` culture '' pushes women out because it ’ s too often set up around how men bond . 'Many of these young women are just toeing the company line . I don ’ t begrudge them . I feel sorry for them . They ’ re hurting their future selves . Just like I did . '
PowerToFly President Katharine has admitted she knew less of a woman 's ability to do a good job if she had kids - until she became a mother . She wrote off a female editor after a meeting about a partnership because she was ' too much of a mother ' who had children 's pictures on her desk . She stayed silent when another female editor suggested firing a pregnant employee . pat Zaleski has started consulting , a business which helps women continue their careers with more flexibility .