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The Gurls Talk Podcast

Ai-jen Poo... on championing domestic workers' rights

The Gurls Talk Podcast

Gurls Talk

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8584 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ai-jen Poo is a next-generation labor leader, award-winning organizer, author, and a leading voice in the women’s movement. Ai-jen is the President of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Director of Caring Across Generations, Co-Founder of SuperMajority and Trustee of the Ford Foundation. In this episode we discuss the future of work, gender equality, immigration, narrative change, and grassroots organizing. ---- Executive Produced by Gurls Talk, Inc. Produced by Haile...

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0:00.0

Inspired by my own journey with mental health, I founded Girls' Talk,

0:06.0

our own safe space where we share, listen and support each other.

0:11.0

So get cozy and join me.

0:13.0

Adjua Burr for some much-needed girls' talk.

0:17.0

According to the UN, there are 67 million domestic workers worldwide.

0:23.0

Although domestic workers care for us and the people we love most,

0:26.9

they receive very little protections, low wages and exposure to physical and mental harm.

0:33.4

That's why we're beyond honoured to have Aijenpoo,

0:37.0

the co-founder and president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance on the podcast today.

0:43.2

Such a massive fan of yours and the whole girls' talk team is. So it really is an absolute honor to have you on the podcast.

0:53.1

So I'm going to get straight into it. I know lots about you,

0:56.1

like I said, but I would love for you to introduce yourself to our wonderful girls talk community.

1:03.9

Yes, I love this community, and I'm so happy to be with you today. My name's I Jen, and I am the

1:10.7

director of an organization called Caring Across

1:14.2

Generations, and it focuses on advocating for caregivers. I'm also the president of the National

1:21.1

Domestic Workers Alliance, where we advocate on behalf of the 2.2 million nannies, house cleaners, and home care workers who

1:30.8

work inside of our homes in the US.

1:33.7

God, absolutely incredible.

1:35.4

And I've listened to, as I said, I've done my research.

1:38.5

I'm verging on stalker.

1:40.9

But you spoke so beautifully about your grandparents and in particular your grandfather who you

1:47.9

had to put into a home, a nursing home. I wanted to go back and just talk through how your

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