Lithai Sathi, now a household name for the most delicious éclairs and cream rolls in Dhaka started her home-based bakery in 2009 to balance her motherhood and a career. She has always been fascinated with baking and had the opportunity to learn from some experts. She started Lithai Bakery by baking amazing cookies, cakes and éclairs from her home, without owning even a proper convection oven. Sathi is famous for her profiteroles or mini-éclairs as she calls them. These are fluffiest choux pastry balls filled with the most luscious vanilla, chocolate or coffee cream. Selling through Cookups allows her to connect with new diners while ensuring her loyal customers of a decade also receive Sathi’s treats whenever they want.
Better education, demands of the economy, dissolution of the joint family structure – there are a number of factors that have enabled many women to step out of the domestic sphere and join the workforce. There are just as many reasons why other women aren’t able to do the same – be it family pressures, care-giving responsibilities, or simply choice (and in 2020, we can learn to respect that). These are their stories 
