Women Work Wellbeing

In this week's episode, we talk about managing chronic pain at work with Zoë Haydn Jones. We discuss chronic illness and women's health in the workplace. and how organisations need to be more open to discussing health conditions and how they affect women in the workplace. Zoë shares her experiences with chronic pain, and her diagnosis of pelvic congestion syndrome, which is varicose veins around the pelvis area that cause severe pain, chronic migraine, and other health conditions, including hyperthyroidism and SVT.

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• So why do some women adopt male behaviour and attitudes to fit in at work? We discuss the chameleon effect, which refers to women adopting male behavior and attitudes to fit in with their male colleagues. While it may provide a sense of belonging, it can also perpetuate gender stereotypes and lead to discrimination.
• Kat discusses women's challenges while working in male-dominated industries and shares her experiences working in contaminated lands, which involved walking around in heavy boots, putting mud in jars, and being subjected to derogatory comments from her male colleagues. She also discusses the importance of speaking up and understanding one's privilege to create a more equitable workplace.

With 40% of women engineers leaving or never entering the field and 78% of STEM women reporting gender discrimination in primarily male workplaces, we need change. We chat with two industry-leading figures for this special woman in Engineering podcast.

Find out why engineering requires diversity to drive innovation.

At the current rate of progress, gender parity among entrants to engineering degrees will not be achieved until 2085. Guest speakers; Stephanie Slocum and Parris Small.

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This week we share the results from our Women at Work survey,

We ran this survey to understand better what women are experiencing in the workplace.

We surveyed 250 women aged 18 to 65 across England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and the US..

The anonymous online survey ran for three weeks.

The majority of respondents work full-time (60.7%).

The industries included medical, tech, engineering, teaching, admin, construction, and media.

These were some of the key areas we focused: - Microaggression - Unconscious bias - Gender pay gap - Flexible working - Return to work after children - Imposer syndrome - Women in leadership - Authority.

If you would like the full report emailed to you directly please drop your details here.

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Breaking the male bias in tech. Luba Ismakov discusses being a successful woman in tech sales and how you can too.

It was enlightening to chat with Luba Ismakov on the podcast this week. Luba is switched-on, intelligent, and has a clear vision on gender equality in tech and what we all need to be doing to make the industry more accessible.

We talked all things

• Getting more women into tech
• What tech sales involves
• How Luba landed a career in tech sales
• What companies need to do to recruit and retain more women in tech
• The barriers facing women in tech.

I particularly loved when Luba talked about looking after women when they in position; it's no good getting them through the door then not supporting them and giving them role models to aspire to.

If you want to connect with Luba you can do so via LinkedIn.

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Financially empowered women will ask for what they deserve in a salary negotiation and ask investors for the amount of money they believe they deserve for their business. Financial literacy feeds back to everything, and Tanya Rolfe shares her experiences, recent data, and how financial literacy comes full circle in everything we do.

Do you feel empowered and financially literate to ask for what you want in terms of salary?

Do you have good financial health and financial awareness? Can your well-being be truly balanced if you are worrying about money or the cost of living with rising bills?

We need more financial literacy from a young age to make real change.

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I read the Work Lab Mom Project report and felt compelled to create an episode around flexible work options for women.

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In this episode, we talk about what true flexibility really looks like in the workplace. If a company says they offer flexible working, but it's only partially true because an individual can work from home, but it is on set days-is, is that truly flexible? Does that help the employee when they need to adjust around family commitments and childcare?

The research identifies 6 factors that create true flexibility, these include;

1. Organisational support
2. Personal autonomy
3. Managerial support
4. Paid time-off
5. Workload
6. Team support

If you have stories to share on your workplace or your personal experience please email me; [email protected].

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This week I had an incredible chat with Emma Haslam from Your IVF Abroad and we talked all things IVF and fertility and how to manage the process at work.

Having IVF treatment can be difficult emotionally and physically - the toll on your body can be really challenging to manage, especially when you you have a busy job and you're juggling home life. Having an understanding and supportive line manager that can show empathy towards someone undergoing this treatment is important but seems to be a rarety at the moment. Equally having a company who has a policy in place for taking leave for appointments or sick leave is so helpful as women and manage manage the process.

In this episode we talked about

• Emma's journey with seeking IVF on the NHS and the difficult and often impossible BMI targets bestowed on patients by the NHS
• The financial implications of IVF in the UK and abroad
• The emotional effect of fertility treatment
• Whether to tell your line manager
• What companies can do to support couples or single people going through treatment

Plus so much more. You do not want to miss this episode.

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Natasha Cadman is a Mother, photographer, and creative. For the last decade, family Natasha has shot weddings all over the world, you name it, she has been to capture it behind the lens.

Natasha has always scattered newborn & family-accessible sessions and branding shoots into her seasons, but after having her two children, she wanted to capture the simplest and ordinary days in family life -the daily ebb and flow that fills the soul, even when it doesn’t always feel like it.

More recently, Natasha has launched a unique approach to women in business - Elevate Branding Sessions: For women that want fresh content for their business regularly. Accessible. Affordable. Beautiful.

These sessions are for women in business (like you). The Elevate Branding Session is shared with 4 other empowering women allowing you time and space to network in between shots. Whether you need touch point images for the ‘gram, a swanky new headshot for your newsletter or your about me page. You might be launching a new section of services or products and have decided that you need some new material for the sales page and funnels, the Elevate Monthly Branding Sessions are a no-brainer for beautiful, affordable, game-changing images.

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This week I talked to Sarah-Jayne Bray, who is a passionate supporter of diversity and inclusion; Sarah-Jayne was chair of the SWP Gender Equality Network from 2019 to 2022, chairing the All Wales Gender Equality Network Chair meeting throughout 2021. She is a member of the BAWP and IAWP, supporting the latter with their Communication and Engagement Strategy. She introduced the first IAWP International Buddy Scheme during COVID and saw 40 women from all over the world connect to discuss shared issues.

The interview feels so timely in light of the report that was published today by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, which was ordered after the kidnap, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021 by a serving Metropolitan police officer, Wayne Couzens.

The Impact of Sarah Everard's Death

Sarah-Jayne talked about the impact Sarah Everard's death had on police officers and herself as a woman working within the police.

She said, "for women in the service, it felt like, woah, we don't want to be part of this, and then for that to be what we are known for, it's almost like you feel like a traitor to the cause, how can I be a gender equality ally and know that this has happened."

Unwarranted stops on women

The report found officers staged unwarranted stops of women in an abuse of power known as "booty patrols," with crimes such as sexual assault covered up and ignored, along with large-scale harassment of female officers and members of the public.

Gender equality

It feels like we are still so far from gender equality when it appears this unacceptable behaviour against women has been ongoing. As a woman, I was deeply affected when Sarah Everard was murdered, so these findings are worrying.

Culture change

However, with the important work Sarah-Jane is doing, we know that culture change is happening. Sarah-Jayne was keen to reassure our community that important work is being done on these issues.

The required long-term culture change can be achieved through the vital work Sarah-Jayne and others are doing. From what Sarah-Jayne talked about, I am confident we are moving in the right direction, but let's not expect an overnight shift.

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