The Marketing Week Podcast: Exploring the reality for working mums
In the latest episode, we explore why mothers are being pushed out of the workforce in increasing numbers, from the rollback of flexible policies to poor company culture.
Recent data from Pregnant Then Screwed revealed 74,000 women each year lose their job for becoming pregnant or taking maternity leave – an increase of 37% on 2016. Why is the number of women being forced out of the workforce rising and what can be done to prevent it?
In this latest episode of The Marketing Week Podcast, managing editor Lucy Tesseras, deputy managing editor Charlotte Rogers and senior reporter Molly Innes discuss the realities for working mums, from the battle for flexibility to poor return to work processes, and how this all ladders up to marketing’s growing gender pay gap.
We are joined on the podcast by Jess Heagren, founder and CEO of Careers After Babies, a parenting organisation that assesses and accredits organisations supporting working parents.
Joining Heagren in conversation is Sophie Maunder, former CEO at VCCP turned founder of maternity coaching business Matri, who has developed an 18-month coaching programme for mothers which supports them when pregnant, during mat leave and when they return.
Ahead of the next episode in Marketing Week’s regular series, find The Marketing Week Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Soundcloud.
