Jules Brooke. Source: supplied/Nancy Morrison. About 20 years ago, there was a surge in women starting their businesses because they weren’t getting any flexibility around their family life once they had children. It may also be that after a long period of not having many children (the birth rate had declined dramatically after the post war baby boom and the introduction of the contraceptive pill) and concentrating on careers, women hadn’t considered the effect of having children on their careers until they were experiencing it. Once they had given birth, they suddenly understood the amo...