Episode 190: Difficult Relationships: managing drama at work
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Business and economics reporter Stacey Vanek Smith has not only reported on the gender pay gap and other workplace discrimination, she’s experienced it firsthand. But it hasn’t put her off the workplace. Far from it. In her book, Machiavelli for Women, she explores how women can thrive in a setting that was not designed for them.
In this show - the tenth anniversary episode of The Broad Experience - we focus on a few areas that are rarely discussed, in particular the relationships women have with other women at work, and how to manage them when things get tricky. We delve into the inequities mothers face after coming back from parental leave, and our shared experience of receiving vague, discouraging and useless feedback - and what to do next.
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| 0:37.8 | Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm Ashley Milne Tite. |
| 1:02.6 | This time, managing our relationships at work, even the ones that are meant to be supportive, |
| 1:04.7 | it's not always easy. |
| 1:09.6 | Women report a lot more drama around that than men do with mentors. |
| 1:12.3 | And I think part of the reason is that women don't have as much power in the workplace. So if, you know, male mentee takes flight, they're just like, oh, fly, bird. |
| 1:19.0 | And I think sometimes when women do that, it's like, wait, who do you think you are? I made you. |
| 1:23.7 | Handling workplace drama. Coming up on the Broad Experience. |
| 1:37.3 | Stacey Vanek-Smith is known to a lot of you. She's a long-time US public radio reporter and host, |
| 1:45.7 | and currently she co-hosts The Indicator from Planet Money. It's a long-time US public radio reporter and host, and currently she co-hosts the indicator from Planet Money. It's a daily show on business and the economy. She was one of my |
| 1:51.8 | guests on an episode I did several years ago on confidence, in which she eloquently expressed |
| 1:57.5 | how elusive that quality can be for women, and why. She and I used to work together at |
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