For the first time this season, we welcome two guests to Culturally Speaking to talk about how gender has influenced their careers. Firstly we spoke with Malida, a former medic in the military who is now a trucker. We also continue the conversation with last week’s guest, Mary, about her career as a military surgeon. Listen in to hear Malinda bust trucking myths and shed light about life on the road. Of course, as an orthopedic surgeon Mary had us drawing on the only source of medical knowledge we know - a Callie Torres Grey’s Anatomy reference! Stay Cultured, J & N xoxo. Please take a moment to subscribe, review and comment. We’d love to hear from you @culturallyspeakingpodcast.

We welcomed Mary, a firefighter turned-orthopedic surgeon in the military to Culturally Speaking this week to discuss the role gender has played in her career. We discuss being mansplained to at medical conferences, physical standards for female firefighters and the importance of representation for future generations. On physical appearance, Mary shares how women aim for the 60th percentile of pretty and how the lessons she learned at the firestation on the power of persuasion in the firestation helped her later in her career. Stay Cultured, J & N xoxo. Please take a moment to subscribe, review and comment. We’d love to hear from you @culturallyspeakingpodcast.

We welcome Sahar, a surgeon, to Culturally Speaking this week to talk about how gender has influenced her career in medicine. The ratio of male to female consultant surgeons in the UK is approximately 8:1. We discuss how Sahar’s patients react to her and the misconceptions they have of her as a surgeon. Speaking about female surgeons it didn’t take us long to bring up TV doctors and the stereotypes, all the Scrubs fans, JD and Turk have a podcast of their own! Stay Cultured, J & N xoxo. Please take a moment to subscribe, review and comment. We’d love to hear from you @culturallyspeakingpodcast.

We’re excited to welcome Ben, a primary school teacher, to Culturally Speaking this week. Over 80% of primary school teachers are female, a proportion that is steadily increasing according to the Department of Education. We discuss how Ben found transferable skills and parallels between bartending and early year education, the benefits of a male presence in the classroom and the stereotypes of male teachers. Stay Cultured, J & N xoxo. Please take a moment to subscribe, review and comment. We’d love to hear from you @culturallyspeakingpodcast. 

We’re excited to welcome Hannah, a police constable, to Culturally Speaking this week. There were no women police officers in the United Kingdom until the First World War and until 1999, women in the police force had their rank title prefixed with "Woman". We discuss Hannah’s route into policing and experiences, the benefits of female police officers and historical gender practices in the police force. (Janice and I are still reeling from the stamping revelation!) Stay Cultured, J & N xoxo. Please take a moment to subscribe, review and comment. We’d love to hear from you @culturallyspeakingpodcast. 

Our love of food is no secret around here so Janice and I might have fangirled just a little bit when we welcomed Henrietta (@a_good_fork), a chef to Culturally Speaking! We ask H about her experiences in the kitchen, home cooking vs professional kitchens, what behaviors are celebrated in the kitchen and what it’s like to work for a female head chef. We discuss how women have been cooking since the beginning of time, but why the majority of professional chefs are men, ‘male’ and ‘female’ food and roles in the kitchen. Stay Cultured, J & N xoxo. Please take a moment to subscribe, review and comment. We’d love to hear from you @culturallyspeakingpodcast. 

In the year ending March 2019, an estimated 2.4 million adults aged 16 to 74 years experienced domestic abuse in the last year, of those 1.6 million were women and 786,000 men. This week we talk to Lori, a domestic abuse support worker, about her experience working with the survivors and victims of both genders and the gender balance amongst support workers. We recognise that this is a sensitive topic, for more information on domestic violence in the UK, you can visit www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk. If you, or someone you know is suffering from domestic abuse, you can get help from the National Domestic Abuse Helpline which is available 24hrs on 0808 2000 247, search Gov.uk for your local Domestic Abuse service. Stay Cultured, J & N xoxo. Please take a moment to subscribe, review and comment. We’d love to hear from you @culturallyspeakingpodcast. 

We’re excited to welcome Anthony (@anthony_thebodyengineer) to kick off Season 2 of Culturally Speaking. Anthony’s career to date is nothing short of extraordinary, we were blown away by everything he has accomplished so far, tune in this week to hear his perceptions of gender norms in gymnastics, dance, yoga and massage. We get his take on the most common stereotypes about men in yoga, nature vs nurture on children’s aptitude and there might even be an Arnie reference in there haha (we’ll be back!) Stay Cultured, J & N xoxo. Please take a moment to subscribe, review and comment. We’d love to hear from you @culturallyspeakingpodcast. 

Hello and welcome back to Culturally Speaking! We wanted to let you know what we’ve been upto since Season 1 wrapped and what you can look forward to in the new season. Season 2 is going to be a little different, we will be focusing on stories of people bucking gender norms in their chosen industry and professions. We will focus on the historical gender balance asking our guests about their experiences, the advantages and disadvantages they’ve experienced and misconceptions they’ve encountered. 

Look out for the first episode of the new season next week, we hope you enjoy this new direction of Culturally Speaking, until then stay cultured! You can find all previous episodes on whatever platform you are listening on now and follow on Instagram @culturallyspeakingpodcast.

This week we continue our conversation with Hudson on the American college culture. Janice and I ask our burning questions about the Greek Life, the sorority recruitment process and new joiner initiation. Who knew ‘Big-Little’ week meant being showered by presents from your big sister! Just a reminder that this is the last episode of Season 1. THANK YOU for listening along, we will be back soon with Season 2! Stay Cultured, J & N xoxo. Please take a moment to subscribe, review and comment. We’d love to hear from you @culturallyspeakingpodcast.