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How to smash the class ceiling in the workplace
FromWorking It
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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Oct 3, 2023
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Podcast episode
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We’re getting better at talking about the roles that gender and race play in career progression. What’s less spoken about is class or social mobility. In this episode, host Isabel Berwick talks to John Friedman, professor and chair of economics at Brown University, who studies the impact of childhood inequality, and hears from Sophie Pender, a London-based corporate lawyer and founder of the 93% Club, a UK network that connects and empowers people who went to state school, about how class discrimination continues to affect people at work and what to do about it.Do you have a workplace dilemma? Isabel and Jonathan Black, director of the careers service at Oxford university, are on hand to help you out. Submit it using this link.Want more? Free links here:Harvard faces federal probe over legacy admissionsUniversity is more than just a springboard to a jobUK youth face being worse off than parents, says social mobility chiefKPMG survey on social class and career progression hereThe 93% Club herePresented by Isabel Berwick, produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval, mixed by Simon Panayi. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Cheryl Brumley is the FT’s head of audio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Oct 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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