Samantha Sutherland

Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Karoline* was supposed to be on leave the week we chatted but had spent each day online chasing things from her leadership team to meet a deadline. It’s not the first time she’s worked beyond […]

Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Edwina* has one 20 month old boy, and works a nine day fortnight, taking every second Friday off We talked about the difficult choices of working motherhood, the ‘manager lottery’, and how individuals and workplaces

Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Cathy* has two kids aged 12 and 14, and works full time. She has a really positive outlook on life, and I think that has a bit to do with what she says no to

Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Courtney* has one 9-year-old daughter with her long term partner. After working for a decade in one of the big banks, she took redundancy and joined the family business. When you no longer belong (and

Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Anna* has twin girls who are 6, a 3 year old boy, and works full time – talk about hectic!! She’s in an HR people partner role, working with a segment of the executive team

Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Charlotte has two girls aged 18 months and 6 years. She’s married and works a “greedy job” in consulting. We talked about what it’s like trying to parent when both parents work big jobs. Spoiler,

Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. This is part 2 of Charlotte’s* journey, where we talk about her traumatic IVF journey. When she discovered she was successful getting pregnant with her second daughter, after 27 rounds of IVF, she got pushed

Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Charlotte* has two girls aged 18 months and 6 years. She was pushed out of her last workplace while she was pregnant, following a difficult IVF journey that got her there. You can read about

Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Naomi* has 2 girls aged 7 and 9, lives with her husband and is job hunting – looking for meaningful, part time work. We chatted about the huge untapped resource of working mothers, and the

Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Emily* is married with two girls aged 18 months and 16 years, and works in communications. We spoke about building a meaningful career, impostor syndrome and the very real challenges of balancing work, care, and