I'm a female breadwinner who moved to Switzerland for my Google job. Our family dynamic is not easy in a conservative culture.

Courtesy of Annalisa Pawlosky

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Annalisa Pawlosky, a 40-year-old AI research scientist at Google in Zurich. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Opinions are her own and not those of Google.