The Broad Experience 73: A Nanny Speaks Up

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The income gap between women is widening fast as well paid, highly educated women outsource traditionally female tasks to women who earn far less, and have little job security. First I talk to Alison Wolf, a professor and a labor market expert. Then we spend the rest of the show with Jennifer Bernard, a Trinidad-born, New York-based nanny. We hear about the unequal work environment that is the home, how she began to gain confidence on the job, and what makes her feel successful.

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.
0:06.8	I'm Ashley Miltite.
0:08.5	This week, the busier you are, the likelier you are to pay someone else to do some traditionally female tasks, from childcare to cleaning.
0:18.3	Professional women need somebody to look after the house and that hasn't gone away.
0:22.5	But it is something which I think makes many people very uncomfortable.
0:27.1	Women find it more uncomfortable to think about than men because so many of these people are women.
0:34.3	And today a lot of them are also migrants with their own ambitions and a desire for recognition.
0:41.3	This is real work. Domestic workers make every work possible. If we don't go to work,
0:48.2	employers can't go to their jobs. Don't we deserve respect? Don't we deserve to not feel like slaves?
0:55.5	Far more women work in other people's homes today than they did 40 years ago.
1:00.2	And there's even more of a power disparity between you and your boss
1:03.5	when their house is your office. This episode of The Broad Experience is sponsored by Foreign Affairs.
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1:57.0	I first talked to Alison Wolfe about two years ago.
1:59.1	She's a professor at King's College London,
2:01.2	and she's the author of a book with a provocative US title, The Double X Factor, How the Rise of Working Women has created a far
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