What unique challenges does Kanika Chadda Gupta highlight regarding parenting and financial equity?

Kanika often highlights how today’s parenting and money realities collide in ways that were never designed for modern families—especially moms.

From her conversations and work, a few themes stand out:

1. Mental load and invisible labor: Moms carry the planning, scheduling, and emotional logistics at home, usually unpaid and unrecognized, yet it affects their bandwidth and earning potential.
2. Childcare gaps: Quality, affordable childcare is hard to secure, which limits career choices, advancement, and financial independence.
3. “Old model” of work and family: Workplaces still assume a full-time, always-available worker with no caregiving duties, so parents (especially mothers) are penalized for setting boundaries.
4. Framing it as leadership and culture, not “mom problems”: She reframes caregiving and financial equity as leadership, retention, and culture issues, not just personal or parenting challenges.

Is there a specific angle you are most interested in, like workplace policy, mental load, or childcare costs?