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Women at Work

When Your Career Is Suddenly on Hold

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

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

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the different professional setbacks women are facing because of the coronavirus crisis and offer advice for dealing with a promotion, project, career move, or entrepreneurial endeavor on hold or lost forever. Guests: Alexandra Kalev and Daisy Auger-Domínguez.

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Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.

0:05.0

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0:25.0

You're listening to Women at Work

0:30.0

You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review. I'm Amy Bernstein.

0:35.0

I'm Amy Gallo. As we get deeper into the coronavirus crisis and

0:40.0

organizations adjust their financial projections.

0:43.6

Leaders are looking to cut budgets and more companies are laying off workers.

0:48.0

As a result, many women are losing their jobs.

0:51.4

Even if you're still employed, your promotion or raise may have been put on hold, or you may have lost

0:56.4

momentum on that new hire you'd been advocating for. Or perhaps your plans for building your own business have gone sideways.

1:03.7

Right now we're grieving the loss of a lot of things.

1:07.1

And that includes the progress we were making toward pay equity and professional advancement.

1:12.4

Before the pandemic puts so much on pause.

1:16.6

But a pause is not forever and later in the show we'll talk about strategies for dealing

1:21.2

with a career setback and moving forward.

1:24.0

First though, we're going to hear from two women whose careers have been

1:28.1

interrupted by the coronavirus crisis. They'll tell us how they're managing.

1:34.0

My name is Anne Tanser.

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