Working Mothers

Dear HBR:

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Are you struggling to balance career and family? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of career coach Daisy Dowling. They talk through what to do when you’re returning from maternity leave, planning to have kids early in your career, or debating whether to quit your job to care for your children.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research,
0:22.5	talk to the experts, and help you move forward. Today we're talking about working mothers
0:34.6	with Daisy Dowling. She's a career coach, and she also helps
0:37.8	companies with their policies around working parents. Daisy, thanks for coming in the show.
0:42.1	Thank you so much for having me. Now, you have children yourself. How much of this do you feel
0:47.7	in your everyday life? Well, I'm going to be honest and say I feel a lot of it. My kids are five
0:52.7	and seven, and I'm living this every day.
0:54.9	When you think about company policies on this issue, are things generally getting better,
1:00.2	getting worse, staying the same? I think they're getting better, but getting better in patches.
1:05.1	So the key trend that I see is a move towards increased or better paid, more lengthy parental leaves, both for men and for women.
1:14.6	That's terrific. It's important. We need it. The only challenge there is that that leave, even if you got it, even if it was incredibly valuable and helpful to you, that doesn't continue helping you throughout your working parenthood.
1:27.0	How much can individuals
1:28.7	really do when companies and societies aren't changing quickly enough? You still have control
1:34.9	over a fair amount. How you enlist help from family and friends and other caregivers, how you
1:41.0	manage your own calendar, what you do on the weekends.
1:46.2	No, the world isn't perfect.
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