Motherhood, Working and Pandemics

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Being a working mother is now an entirely normal part of life but this was certainly not always the case and was often seen as a social ill in the past. Helen McCarthy, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, joins Dan to help chart how the role of women in the workforce has changed over time and what impact the last year in lockdown has had on women, work, education and the structures of family's as a whole.

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0:32.9	Hi everybody, welcome to Downs and O's history.
0:34.7	I wanted to get Helen McCarthy back on the podcast,
0:37.3	partly because she's just been nominated,
0:39.0	quite rightly for the Wilson history prize,
0:41.3	and partly because we talked just as we were going into lockdown,
0:44.6	just over a year ago.
0:46.0	And we both agreed it'd be interesting to come back
0:47.8	and talk about the experience of lockdown,
0:50.1	what we've learned about its impacts on women,
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