scilence S2: 75 Civil Engineering & JUGGLING LIFE

My guest this week admits the mistakes she's made and lessons learned in juggling motherhood and career.  She is now trying to get her career back on track after taking time out to raise her two boys.  She like many other women was good at the sciences, but didn’t want to do medicine and ended up in civil engineering instead - she always enjoyed being a bit different anyway.  much to her dismay, she was crossed off from senior roles because she got pregnant, despite being an ambitious Cambridge graduate.  On the plus side, motherhood taught her the soft skills that she never would have got anywhere else - although she highlights that nobody seems to value them.  She’s slightly resentful that she had to make career choices, which didn’t allow her to progress, and advises all women to never opt for part-time work - purely because part-time ends up being full-time with less pay.  She highlights that you have to be selfless for your children, which means you can’t pay yourself any attention and keys things such as networking is impossible with small kids.  On the flip side, women who have achieved a lot are currently viewed as scary in society today, but attitudes must change  Flexibility at work is the only way that women can have it all, so companies need to think beyond 9-5pm working.  Women are needed in industry - thats a fact and men need o stop treating other men badly for wanting to take a greater role in parenting.  This podcast is all about finding ways to let women have it all - it possible, but both men and women need to muck in.