Episode 163: No Kids. Working Hard.

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We're still in a pandemic and we know women's careers are suffering. So many of us are managing working from home and family at the same time. But what if you don't have kids, or your children are grown up? In this show we meet two child-free women with different experiences of work during Covid. One feels her career is thriving. The other wonders what ambition means anymore when she just wants to get offline before midnight.

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0:10.8	Relax your shoulders. Take a deep breath in and out.
0:20.3	Feels better, right?
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0:33.8	No pressure.
0:35.0	Just help.
0:35.9	But for now, just relax.
0:37.8	Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. I'm Ashley Milne Tite.
0:56.3	This time, when we discuss women's careers in the pandemic, we're mostly talking about mothers.
1:03.1	But what if you don't have kids? I'm reaping the rewards of those choices. And I was before COVID. And all this year has really done,
1:14.2	I feel, is magnify those opportunities for me to keep working and keep excelling when others may
1:19.7	have barriers that they're facing instead. Still, not every child-free woman sees this time as an
1:27.1	opportunity.
1:28.3	When I entered this job, I was kind of banking on being able to work more hours
1:33.4	and pick up the pieces and stuff.
1:35.5	Like, I was banking on all of that to work in my favor.
1:37.9	At this point, in the pandemic, I don't know that I'm as motivated as I was before to work my way up.
1:44.8	Coming up on the broad experience.
1:56.4	In all the discussions we've been having in the last two shows
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