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 didn'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 didn'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 couldn't make it to last minute team drinks   even though they would arrive at work two hours earlier the next day she also didn'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 couldn'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'
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powertofly president katharine zaleski admitted she thought less of a woman's ability to do a good job if she had kids   until she became a mom . she wrote off a time 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 . ms zaleski has started powertofly, a business which helps women continue their careers with more flexibility 