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
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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
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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
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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
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Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Sarah* is a mother of 3 kids aged 9, 10, and 16, who lives with the father of her two younger kids (who she calls her lover). We spoke about the work she has to
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If you’re part of a government team, you know all too well how much change you’ve been experiencing lately. With new Ministers, MOGs, changes within departments, and and constant responsiveness to requests and external stakeholders, it feels like you’re constantly shifting and adjusting. Add to that nearly three years of
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In a recent ACT Government workshop, I asked everyone in the room to define 12 project elements. There were 30 people in the workshop, and we ended up with at least 10 different definitions for each element. Everyone was working on the same project, but they were all trying to
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To make sure you don’t miss future episodes of Women at Work, subscribe on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts! Eight months pregnant, coming to terms with the fact that she was going to have to give birth in hospital alone because of hospital restrictions, Carolina Giraldo was
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To make sure you don’t miss future episodes of Women at Work, subscribe on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts! Wendy Tuohy saw the impossible situation women are put in at work when they become mothers, and it made her passionate about gender equality and exposing the truth.
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To make sure you don’t miss future episodes of Women at Work, subscribe on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts! I loved Koa Beck’s book, White Feminism, and underlined at least a third of it whilst reading. This conversation takes us through what white feminism even is, how
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