62. SPECIAL - Making Full Time Work Work (with a young family) - Caterpillar, Dell, NHS, Police, a charity and Financial Services

Hello Bright Minds, this is a special season finale involving six guests who are making full time work work with  young children. I wanted to do this episode after I read a statistic that didn’t shock me as much as sadden me in a report published earlier this year called “CAREERS AFTER BABIES”. 848 women took part in the research which found 85% of women leave the full-time workforce within three years of having children.

Upfront disclaimer, all voices in this episode are women who are in a partnership with the father of their children. The guests are drawn from our Instagram community where I put up a poll one Saturday morning in February asking whether they worked FT or PT. I was surprised that the majority in our community answered that they work full time and then thought…haha, let’s do a podcast about working full time and ask these mamas to be part of it. I didn’t hear from anyone who is solo parenting and working full time and so we’ve got the voices who volunteered to chat to me.

When I reflect on the DM’s people sent me on instagram and the voices of the women you’re about to hear, there appear to be four key factors that enable women to continue to work FT when they become parents. 

1. Mindset and attitude of the individual: wanting to work full time and enjoying your work.
2. Your employer having a positive and supportive attitude towards of compressed hours.
3. Your employer having a positive and supportive attitude to working from home.
4.  And number four relates to a woman’s partner: having a partner who is positive about you working FT and is committed to sharing the load equally at home

In this episode you’re going to hear those factors brought to life. 

My guests are:

• Carina Hoskisson, Engineer at Caterillar.
• Caoimhe Burins, Audit Manager at Dell.
• Rebecca Knight, an Executive Assistant in financial services.
• Kirsty Trude, HR business partner in an international charity.
• Chrissy, who works in the NHS.
• "Anna" who works in the police.

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