Episode #15 - How do you do it? Is it a condescending question?
Let's Talk Worklife
English - January 22, 2023 17:22 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBCareers Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Working woman especially working moms get asked this question - how do you do it? Meaning how do you manage both home and work and most women absolutely hate it
Keira Knghtley in an 2018 interview to Vogue mentioned "WHY don’t journalists ask men how they balance their home life and their career?,” “Why don’t you ask male actors how they feel being a father and going off to shoot a movie? More times than not, that’s the first question that I’ll be asked — how do you balance motherhood with your career?”
In general it's taken as a condescending question. Its widely and generally written out that this question is not a right or a great question to ask women , working mothers that is
In this episode let's flip it and ask ourselves - from one working woman to another is the question that offending after all. If it's infact offending is it entirely the society's fault in asking the question to working mothers.