Episode 162: The Coming Shift: What's Happening to Our Careers (part 2)
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In the last episode you heard Jessi Hempel and I ask, what is happening to women’s careers right now? So many of us are still at home, often with family underfoot, attempting to manage children’s schooling or simply care for them while also doing our own jobs. Much has been written about the ‘women’s recession’ and the enormous pressure women are under during this pandemic.
In this show Avivah Wittenberg-Cox offers a more hopeful perspective.
She sees this crisis is an opportunity for organizations to change the way they do things and make the workplace fairer for everyone. She says a generation clash between men is part of the current problem. And she says many of us will undergo a big shift in our careers in the months and years ahead, whether we welcome it or not.
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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 Milm Tite. |
| 0:51.6 | In the last episode, we worried that women might be losing ground during this pandemic. |
| 0:54.3 | This time, a different perspective. |
| 1:01.1 | Suddenly flexibility, something that women have been fighting for for 30 years, is becoming the default position for a growing number of companies. And we're already yelling victim, |
| 1:06.5 | victim, victim, rather than, wow, this is really cool. |
| 1:13.0 | Coming up on the broad experience. |
| 1:25.3 | What is happening to women's careers right now? |
| 1:29.0 | That's the question you heard Jesse Hempel and I tackle in the last podcast. And it's one I'm going to keep asking one way or another in these next few shows. |
| 1:34.6 | In that conversation with Jessie, we looked at some of what we're hearing anecdotally. |
| 1:39.9 | That women with families, some of them are thinking about quitting their jobs, all they already |
| 1:45.0 | have, because they just don't see how they can make it all work when their children need |
| 1:50.7 | so much support right now. It's an old story, but with a new pandemic twist. |
| 1:57.8 | My guest today is more optimistic, and she says organizations can learn a lot of lessons from the pandemic that they can use to make everyone's life at work easier when we return to some kind of normality. |
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