Rapid Response: Putting an end to hustle culture, w/Reshma Saujani, author of Pay Up
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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“It’s not about fixing women. It’s about fixing the system,” says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code and Marshall Plan for Moms. As the author of the new book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work, Reshma calls out corporate feminism and society’s assumption that women have to solve the problems of workplace achievement on their own. She argues that childcare is an economic issue that should be subsidized by employers, and that the discourse around the “future of work” needs to move beyond employees’ return to the workplace. Reshma also takes Silicon Valley to task for not diversifying their tech force.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi listeners, it's Reed. If you've ever felt stuck, if you can't get out of a rut or |
| 0:05.1 | over a hurdle, well, you're in good company. Every entrepreneur I've spoken to on Master's |
| 0:10.1 | scale has faced that moment at some point in their career. And so have most of the world's |
| 0:15.9 | greatest artists and creators. In fact, anyone who has ever tried to bring a bold, new |
| 0:21.3 | vision of life can probably relate. That's why I want to recommend another podcast that |
| 0:27.1 | will help you break out of the mold and cultivate a creative mindset. It's called Spark and Fire, |
| 0:34.0 | and it's produced by the same award-winning team that's behind Master's scale. Spark and Fire |
| 0:39.1 | is designed to fuel your creativity and innovation with epic stories and memorable takeaways from |
| 0:45.2 | creators at the top of their game. So take a quick moment right now to search for Spark and Fire |
| 0:51.6 | in your podcast player and follow the show. I've gotten a sneak peek in the some of their |
| 0:56.7 | upcoming episodes and trust me, you won't want to miss what's in store. The CDC released a report |
| 1:04.4 | saying that the two subgroups that are suffering the most pandemic are 19 to 24-year-olds and moms. |
| 1:12.5 | You literally saw 11 million women leave the workforce. So we lost almost 30 years of progress |
| 1:20.9 | in nine months. You can't lose all those jobs like that without a plan and there was none and |
| 1:28.0 | that was why I was like we need a Marshall Plan for moms. What's driving the great resignation is |
| 1:34.0 | not that people don't want to work. They don't want to work for you. And so if you want to feel like |
| 1:38.5 | people are committed to you start taking care of their families. |
| 1:42.2 | That's Reshma Sagini, founder of Girls Who Code and a newer effort called the Marshall Plan for |
| 1:52.3 | Moms. In a new book, Reshma argues that the future of women in work will be radically different. |
| 1:58.9 | I'm Bob Safian, former editor of Fast Company, founder of the Flux Group and host of Master's |
| 2:04.4 | Scale Rapid Response. I wanted to talk to Reshma because the post-pandemic workforce is uncomfortably |
| 2:11.2 | less gender-diverse than it was going into 2020. Reshma's new book is a battle cry for a different |
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