Bonus episode: Femininity and Power

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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"When you see the countries that have been run by women, they’re not necessarily the Anglo-Saxon countries." In this extra episode we're back with Avivah Wittenberg-Cox. She's fresh from 30 years of living in France, and a keen observer of how gender plays out all over the world. "Anglo-Saxon cultures do not like, embrace, or value femininity," she says. Ouch.

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0:00.0	Get ready with me, gym edition.
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0:44.4	Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success.
0:45.8	I'm Ashley Mel Tite.
0:59.6	This time, what is always interesting to me is the difference culturally in how different cultures view femininity. And I think Anglo-Saxon cultures do not like embrace or value femininity. That's Aviva Wittenberg-Cox. She started in the last show.
1:10.1	Does your partner support your success? And I told you at the end of that show I was going to feature her again in an extra episode this week because we got into an exchange at the end of our interview about cultural differences around masculinity and femininity. And if you spend most of your time in the US like I do, it can be easy to forget.
1:29.2	Attitudes can be quite different in other parts of the world.
1:33.2	And just for some context, at one point you'll hear me refer to this New York Times article
1:37.2	about French actress Catherine De Nerve.
1:39.9	She and many other prominent French women wrote this open letter to Le Monde earlier this year saying the Me Too Movement had gone too far that it threatened sexual freedom.
1:50.5	So with this first question to Aviva, I'm kind of continuing from where I left off at the end of the last episode where we were talking about relationships between two career couples.
1:59.5	You were of European lineage, but you grew up in Canada,
2:02.5	but you've lived in Europe for decades, you still do. Do you notice any difference in heterosexual
2:08.5	couples, say in Europe and North America? Or is it pretty much across the board, everything
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