Episode 118: A Year for Women?

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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We could be entering a new era for women at work. Women aren't whispering about bullying or harassment any more, and we're speaking up about equal pay more often. Everything feels different than it did just a few months ago. A lot of us are excited about the future. Could this be the year more women see equality at work, and will men support that evolution (or revolution?) Two guests on different continents talk about their hopes and fears for the year ahead. Anne Libby is a longtime management expert and observer of workplace dynamics. Nastaran Tavakoli-Far co-hosts The Gender Knot podcast from London. Send feedback to ashley@thebroadexperience.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. I'm Ashley Miltight.
0:14.0	This time, workplace harassment is no longer something we're whispering about. In the wake of the Me Too movement, women's voices
0:21.9	are getting louder and more confident. So will 2018 be a new dawn for women in the workplace?
0:29.4	You know, one of the things that I've heard said is, well, we just need more women in leadership.
0:34.8	But just having a woman there doesn't mean that she's going to be any more
0:37.7	deft and skilled in knowing how to deal with a harassment situation. I'm a big fan of all this
0:44.3	sort of discomfort that men are feeling right now because I think any change requires a bit of
0:50.1	discomfort and this isn't a bad thing. And I think as women, we need to be careful not to care
0:57.0	too much that there is some discomfort amongst men. Coming up, two women on whether this year
1:02.5	could be a turning point for women at work. I met Anne Libby several years ago at an event in New York, and we've been pen pals ever since.
1:19.1	Anne grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and though she's based in New York, she still spends a lot of time in Chicago.
1:25.1	She has her own coaching and consulting business that helps people become better
1:29.0	managers, which is something Anne never could have imagined when she graduated from the University
1:34.4	of Chicago in the 80s. She'd studied behavioral science. She thought she might become a psychologist
1:40.6	or psychiatrist. I worked in a lab for a couple of years at the university after college and decided that
1:49.0	that was not going to be my jam and I got a job in banking.
1:54.8	Something she fell into when someone she'd worked for previously said, why don't you be my
1:59.4	assistant for a while? Before a year was up, she'd been moved previously said, why don't you be my assistant for a while?
2:04.7	Before a year was up, she'd been moved from Chicago to New York.
2:10.3	She spent nine years with that bank, mostly working on turnaround situations where a business area needed to be fixed up.
2:12.7	With her background in behavioral science, it turned out this was a great fit.
2:17.5	The changes that needed to be made were in people's behavior.
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