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Motherhood, Working and Pandemics
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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
May 12, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Being a working mother is now an entirely normal part of life but this was certainly not always the case and was often seen as a social ill in the past. Helen McCarthy, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, joins Dan to help chart how the role of women in the workforce has changed over time and what impact the last year in lockdown has had on women, work, education and the structures of family's as a whole.
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Released:
May 12, 2021
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Podcast episode
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