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Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Business, Business/careers, Workplace, Business/entrepreneurship, Resources, Harvard, Management, Equality, Progress, Gender, Business/management, Careers, Women, Entrepreneurship, Human, Hbr

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🗓️ 6 May 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Just because some of us are single and childless doesn’t mean we don’t have problems at the office or responsibilities outside of it. We talk with a woman who’s been writing a series of essays about her singlehood, as well as a researcher who studies this demographic. Guests: Shani Silver and Tracy Dumas. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
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0:27.0	So what I'm most interested in learning about in this conversation is whether there is bias against single childless women and how the bias shows up.
0:37.0	Right, and it sounds like it's possible the bias could be favorable in some ways, right?
0:43.3	We've seen research that shows that single women make
0:46.7	as much as married men with children are close to.
0:50.9	But we're also seeing a lot of evidence that they're not treated well and thought less of.
0:56.8	So I'm going to be curious to see how that research shakes out.
1:01.2	Yeah.
1:02.2	I'm just excited to hear more about new research that's being
1:06.8	done in this area. I feel like more women are delaying having children and
1:12.2	getting married until later and
1:14.4	later in their professional careers and their lives and I don't know if that has
1:18.4	been studied super well aside from areas like pay. So I just want to see what we know from research about this demographic. You're listening to women at work from Harvard Business Review.
1:35.8	I'm Amy Bernstein.
1:37.0	I'm Nicole Torres.
1:38.2	And I'm Amy Gallo.
1:39.7	This episode we're exploring some of the questions and tensions around being a single
1:43.5	childless woman in the workplace. Because the organization says well you know you
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