Episode 173: A Nanny Speaks Up (re-release)
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The income gap between women is widening fast as well paid, educated women outsource traditionally female tasks to women who earn far less, with little job security. In this episode we meet Alison Wolf, a professor and labor market expert and author of The XX Factor. Then we hear from Jennifer Bernard, a Trinidad-born, New York-based nanny. She describes the unequal work environment that is the home, how she began to gain confidence on the job, and what makes her feel successful.
Since this episode was first released life has become harder for domestic workers of all kinds. Many lost their jobs during the early days of the pandemic, and some remain unemployed.
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| 0:44.5 | Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm Ashley Milntight. |
| 0:54.9 | This week, I'm releasing a show I produced several years ago about some of the things that can crop up when your workplace is someone else's home. |
| 1:01.5 | My main guest is a nanny. She has a lot of experience on the job and very much wants other women like her to feel safe and secure in their roles. When we spoke, she was working in New York |
| 1:08.2 | City. She'd spent a lot of her nannying life there. And according to a |
| 1:12.4 | recent study from the National Domestic Workers Alliance, in May of last year, so when the pandemic |
| 1:18.6 | was still at its peak in New York, between 40 and 60 percent of domestic workers were out of a job, |
| 1:26.7 | including nannies. Some still haven't got those jobs back. |
| 1:32.5 | Here's the show. This week, the busier you are, the likelyer you are to pay someone else to do some |
| 1:39.3 | traditionally female tasks, from childcare to cleaning. Professional women need somebody to look after the house, and that hasn't gone away. |
| 1:48.0 | But it is something which I think makes many people very uncomfortable. |
| 1:52.1 | I think women find it more uncomfortable to think about than men because so many of these people |
| 1:58.5 | are women. |
| 1:59.5 | And today, a lot of them are also migrants with their own ambitions |
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