Episode 161: What is Happening to Women's Careers Right Now?
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I sit down with Jessi Hempel, host of LinkedIn's Hello Monday podcast about the future of work.
If you have family responsibilities the future may have shrunk to this week and managing what's right in front of you. As Jessi puts it, for many of us career questions 'exist in a different plane in time, and we're not existing in that plane right now.' She and I talk about how the last six months have affected women's careers in particular, and what might happen next. We discuss who's able to get ahead right now, and the delights of a supportive manager whose home/work life is as crazy as your own.
We don't have a crystal ball, but we wonder - will this pandemic have lasting effects on women's progress?
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| 0:44.7 | Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm Ashley Miltight. |
| 0:52.0 | This time, as this year began, a lot of people were making career plans. |
| 0:56.0 | Then life as we knew it came to a halt. |
| 1:04.0 | Maybe they wanted a career change. Maybe they wanted that big promotion. And it's not so much that those career questions went away. It's as if they exist in a different plane in time. And we're not existing in that |
| 1:13.7 | plane right now. Coming up, the first of a few shows on what is happening to women's careers |
| 1:18.7 | right now and where we might go from here. This has been an utterly weird year in so many ways, and it's not over yet. |
| 1:36.5 | There's the sadness and grief of COVID, for all the people who have died, |
| 1:42.2 | and for the end of normal life, which happened so suddenly. |
| 1:47.3 | There's the ongoing uncertainty about what life will look like when this pandemic does end. |
| 1:53.0 | There's the economic fallout, which is happening all around us. |
| 1:57.3 | And in the midst of such huge considerations, it's not surprising a lot of women are putting ambitions to one side as they focus on the day-to-day. |
| 2:07.5 | My guest this week has a bird's-eye view on the world of work. |
| 2:12.8 | Jesse Hemple is a longtime magazine journalist who's now at LinkedIn. |
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