There’s an Eruption in My Living Room! The Care Economy, Part 1
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Caregiving is a second economy that requires a skilled workforce all its own. Yet, women are its main drivers, leaving us tired and worn out, and making it nigh impossible to compete in the workplace. We cannot achieve gender parity without more support. The pandemic showed us that caregivers and those we tend to deserve better. Dr. Nithila Peter joins us in a 2 part series to discuss solutions.
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If you would like to learn more about today’s topic:
Unfinished Business by Anne Marie Slaughter
Secrets of the Sprakkar by Eliza Reid
Blessing Adesiyan, the Founder and CEO of Mother Honestly, is a good resource
1:00 Women are disproportionately responsible for the caring of others
1:41 Definition of the care economy https://research.american.edu
2:20 Women have less time and energy for our careers
3:06 Pandemic made matters worse
4:07 Society doesn’t value caregiving
5:08 Dr. Nithila Peter is joining us today
6:04 Connection between emotional intelligence and the giving of care
9:15 Caregivers make the best employees
10:03 Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft
11:20 Mentors, coaches, and managers are or should be caregivers
12:06 The pandemic caused many caregivers to collapse
13:35 View of caregiving as “women’s work”
14:29 Students equated caregiving skills to the skills of a janitor
17:30 Caregiving should be more equitably handled by all genders
19:13 We all need to be open to learning these important caregiving skills
21:30 Parents grow skills by being caregivers
23:30, 25:10 Providing care is akin to rocket science
27:22 Stop gender stereotyping
28:12 Lack of support systems for people who want to be caregivers and breadwinners
31:00 How the Indian culture offers support for caregivers
35:00 High cost of caregiving keeps some women home
37:25 Some women don’t have power in their own homes to allocate resources to caregiving
38:40 Women must have equality at home to have equality in the workplace
40:33 Iceland supports caregivers
41:15 Iceland is the most gender equal country in the world
41:51 Organizations can provide support if governments do not
42:00 Former CEO of Pepsi, Indra Nooyi supports more visibility of caregiving at work
47:15 Role of feminism in the care economy
48:34 Most women are breadwinners and caregivers
50:10 Working stands in the way of caregiving vs. caregiving stands in the way of working
51:00 Woman leader published article saying women should reconsider having children
53:45 Sheryl Sandberg did not tell us to lean into motherhood
54:50 Caregiving needs to be more visible
55:25 Pipeline of women talent is completely broken due to caregiving pressures
58:05 We need to talk more about caregiving responsibilities at work
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