Suzette Mitchell, PhD, is an Associate with Gender At Work. Originally from Australia, she was forty-two when she had her daughter Veronika in Hanoi, Vietnam. She was running a United Nations agency during the birth and first four years of her daughter’s life. She returned to Melbourne, Australia, when her daughter was eight, continuing to consult for the UN and the Asian Development Bank in international development for women. Her PhD was on the impact of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and was conducted in the Department of Women’s Studies and Political Science at the Australian National University.