One Thing with Joeli Brearley on why the Motherhood Penalty is not your fault
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Joeli founded Pregnant Then Screwed in 2015 after her own experience of pregnancy discrimination. She writes for the Telegraph, is the winner of the Northern Power Women Agent for Change award, is an Amnesty International Human Rights Defender and a member of the United Nations Working Group: Women’s Human Rights in the Changing World of Work. In January 2021 she took the Government to court for indirect sex discrimination due to the way self employed mothers were being financially penalised by the income support scheme. Her debut book: ”Pregnant Then Screwed: The Truth about the Motherhood Penalty, and how to fix it’’ was published on the 4th March 2021. In 2022 'The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career' was published.
You can visit the Pregnant Then Screwed website here
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| 0:31.3 | Hello and welcome to The Therapy Edit with me psych therapists mom of three and author Anna Martha |
| 0:37.0 | every Friday I invite one guest to tell me the one thing they would most like to share with mums everywhere. |
| 0:46.3 | So join with me as we hear this dose of wisdom. |
| 0:50.3 | I hope you enjoy it. Hi everyone, welcome to today's guest episode of the Therapy Edit. |
| 0:58.0 | Now my guest today, I have been just, I've wanted to get her on for ages because I've been following her journey on social media and the absolute |
| 1:06.9 | She is changing and challenging the tectonic plates of |
| 1:11.5 | Mothers and how and how we navigate kind of life in the juggle and work and pregnancy and |
| 1:16.8 | motherhood so if you haven't worked out already I have Jolie Brilly here so |
| 1:21.7 | where do I start on Jolie? She founded |
| 1:24.0 | pregnant then screwed in 2015 and that was kind of that came out of her |
| 1:30.1 | experiencing pregnancy discrimination. Now pregnant then screwed is the leading charity working to end the motherhood penalty. |
| 1:37.3 | Just striving to benefit all of us and the generations to come and they are doing it. |
| 1:43.4 | They campaign for the issues impacting pregnant women and working moms, |
| 1:47.2 | offering meaningful advice whilst campaigning for change. |
| 1:50.3 | So she literally campaigns tirelessly. |
| 1:52.5 | Her social media is just, I mean, just if you don't follow already, do because it's amazing to see |
| 2:00.8 | people and her team that are just fighting for change and they are |
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