Episode 132: The Military Spouse and the Challenge of Work

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Why is it so hard to combine a career with military life? That's the question we look at in this show, brought to you by Stacy Raine, a military wife herself. Women who marry a US service member often start out with careers of their own. But as time goes by and families move around the country, military spouses find it tough to find work. This show looks at the reasons behind that, what we can do to change the status quo, and why the rest of us should care.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.
0:13.1	I'm Ashley Montaite.
0:14.8	This time, in the US, hundreds of thousands of women are married to members of the military,
0:22.4	but government bureaucracy makes it tough for a military spouse to work outside the home. You know, before my husband was in
0:27.4	the picture, you know, I was making really good money and I was taking care of myself and now
0:32.4	I'm having to depend solely on him. And it's hard. It's hard to switch to that. I want to be
0:38.5	contributing. Coming up, why military life and women's careers don't mix and what we can do to
0:44.3	change that.
0:53.4	Over the years, I've heard from a few of you about how hard it can be to have a decent career when you're married to a member of the military.
1:01.0	I've always intended to delve more into this topic in a show, but I still haven't got round to it.
1:06.6	But someone far more qualified than me has.
1:10.0	This episode comes to you from Stacey Rain.
1:12.9	Stacey is a broad experience listener and she's married to a US Marine.
1:17.2	She spent weeks working on this piece about why women who want to work,
1:21.3	want to support their families and build up some savings,
1:24.4	often just can't, and why that matters to the rest of us.
1:28.9	The focus here is on military spouses in the US, and I'd be really curious to hear from listeners
1:33.7	outside America about whether any of this resonates with you, or if your experience of work
1:38.6	and military life is quite different. You'll hear from me again at the end. Enjoy the show.
1:47.2	Atten, turn, highlight, breath. Welcome to the United States Marine Corps.
1:58.6	Aux Sergeant Yelling at me! Welcome to the United States Marine Corps. I'm sure you can picture this in your mind. Hundreds of Americans are
2:15.6	hundreds of Marines out on a formation run, calling cadence and moving in unison.
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