Yin Yin Leow was a stay-at-home mother for almost a decade before she decided to find a part-time job. When asked how she would describe financial independence, she did it with just one word – "liberating."
Helen began her casual cooking journey about 25 years ago – cooking simple meals for her friends and family. As her love for cooking grew, she wanted to make a career out of it. But commitments to her family held her back.
Despite being one of the world's fastest-rising economies, 63 percent of women in Singapore are left out of the workforce, owing to family responsibilities as the top reason, according to Manpower Research and Statistics Department, 2018.