Honest as a Mother
Join Amanda as she is sitting down with other moms and having the tough conversations surrounding motherhood. Amanda is a full time working mom who's passionate about discussing the "taboo" topics of motherhood. Join Amanda as she gets honest as a mother on her own feelings about what motherhood is really like.
Honest as a Mother
How the Pandemic has Taken a Toll on Mothers with Andrea O'Reilly
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Amanda is joined today by Andrea O'Reilly who is a professor for the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University.
Discussed in the podcast:
- How Moms are also Frontline Workers
- The Emotional Labour of Motherhood - what is this and how come mothers take this on so heavily?
- How mothers have had to become teachers, chefs, the cleaning staff AND work from home
- Mothers having to take a pause on their careers or leave the work force entirley. Putting women back at least 10 years or more.
Andrea's facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/257650828618099
Buy Andrea's Book: https://demeterpress.org/books/mothers-mothering-and-covid-19-dispatches-from-the-pandemic/