Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milne tight.

This time we look at the idea that part of the reason women aren't further ahead at work

is because they're still doing so much at home.

As women, we get so much career advice about what to do in the office.

But one of our biggest career obstacles happens at home.

Before we even walk out the back door in the morning,

we already have a hurdle to overcome.

And we hear a male view on domestic arrangements and career inhibitions.

I would like to be the most successful journalist in the world.

But I have to get at 7 in the morning.

I have to spend the whole weekend, you know, in playground shouting at people.

Coming up on the broad experience.

Liz O'Donnell is the sole way journal in her family of four.

She works in marketing in Boston.

Her husband stays at home in the suburbs to run the house and look after their two kids when they get back from school.

On top of her job, Liz runs the blog, Hello Ladies,

and she's the author of a new book called Mogughal, Mom and Made. She doesn't spend

much time slaving over a hot stove, let alone a vacuum cleaner, but she realized a lot of working

women she knew were. On the one hand, they had their jobs in the hard-charging, high-expectations

American workplace. On the other, they had to deal with everyone's expectations of what a woman's

role is outside the office. Take the school gates. The school's absolutely still default to the mother.

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