Episode 192: Better in Scandinavia (re-release)
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The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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This time we're revisiting an episode about working women in the Nordic countries.
Scandinavia has a reputation for equality and excellent work/life balance. American women look enviously at these nations as they scrape together a short maternity leave or finish another 10-hour day. But here's the paradox: there are just as few women in powerful roles in Scandinavia as there are in the US. Three women in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark take us behind the scenes to find out why.
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| 0:44.7 | Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm Ashley Milne Tight. |
| 0:52.6 | This week I am travelling and the show I'm working on isn't quite ready to go out. So I'm re-releasing an episode that I first put out just |
| 0:57.6 | after the presidential election of 2016. And it focuses on working women in the Scandinavian countries. |
| 1:06.8 | And I think many of us look at these countries and think they're a bit of a utopia for working women. |
| 1:15.1 | But are they? |
| 1:17.1 | Here's the show. |
| 1:19.7 | This time, America may not have elected a female head of state, but most Scandinavian countries have. |
| 1:26.3 | And these countries have excellent reputations for gender equality. |
| 1:30.3 | This is something that's talked about in the government, and then it's talked about down to sort of the |
| 1:35.4 | preschool or the school level, and then amongst parents. But despite that, the number of women in senior |
| 1:41.4 | roles isn't that different from the US. |
| 1:47.2 | Actually, more women do have good education, but still we see the problem that it's men who are getting the highest salaries. |
| 1:55.3 | Coming up, we take a look at life for working women in the Nordic countries. |
| 2:08.0 | Thank you. life for working women in the Nordic countries. I live in the workaholic US. |
| 2:11.0 | Hours are long, parental leave is often non-existent, and good, affordable childcare can be hard |
| 2:17.0 | to find. |
| 2:18.2 | And during the years I've been doing the show, I've often thought enviously about women in Scandinavia. |
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