Mother’s Day Special with Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and leader, the Marshall Plan for Moms

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our special Mother’s Day episode. Skimm’d from the Couch is a career podcast...and we can’t talk about work and career without talking about how that changes when you become a parent. This past year has also created new challenges for working moms, while exacerbating existing ones. Which, PS: often go unrecognized. So we wanted to know: what can we do about it? To get some answers, we invited Reshma Saujani back on the show. She’s the founder of Girls Who Code, the leader of the Marshall Plan for moms, and a mom herself. We talk to her about parenthood, entrepreneurship, and how to fix a system that undervalues the invisible work of women. In this episode, Reshma shares how the past year has been for her, what policy changes could benefit working parents, and her advice for taking action in your own workplace.

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0:00.0	We've seen everybody's life on the Zoom screen.
0:10.3	You've seen my son interrupt me a hundred times.
0:12.9	You've seen my bedroom, my work, and I think in the beginning, a lot of us were turning
0:17.1	off our video and muting the sound because we knew intellectually that we were going to
0:23.2	pay the cost of you seeing our mother right.
0:28.9	I'm Carly Zaken, I'm Danielle Weisberg, welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:32.7	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it, from the good
0:36.7	stuff like hiring and growing a team to the rough stuff like negotiating your salary and
0:42.0	giving or getting hard feedback.
0:44.5	We started the Skim from a couch, so what better place to talk at all out than where it
0:48.8	began on a couch?
0:56.7	Welcome to our Mother's Day episode of Skim from the couch.
1:00.3	Our guest today is Reshma Sujani.
1:02.6	She is the founder of Girls Who Code, and today we're going to talk about working moms.
1:08.3	Over the past year, we have seen just how devastating this pandemic has been for women who are losing
1:13.3	their jobs and dropping out of the labor force at alarming numbers.
1:17.8	Reshma has proposed a martial plan for moms to get women back to work and to create sustainable
1:23.2	solutions for working women in the future.
1:26.4	Thank you so much for coming back on the couch with us today.
1:30.2	This is actually your second time on the show.
1:32.7	I think that's the first time we've ever had anyone twice, so a lot of history happening,
1:37.9	but really, really excited to dig in here.
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