Work Family Me - Conversations with Maude
Welcome to a series of conversations about themes relevant to preventing burnout hosted by Maude Burger-Smith. In Season 1 we look at the behind the scenes of working and parenting in cultures around the world. In Season 2 we discuss various aspects of hormonal transitioning in perimenopause and how these may show up in our lives.
Work Family Me - Conversations with Maude
A conversation about work, motherhood, domestic labor, and feminism in Japan
In this episode of Work Family Me, I speak with Tanja McCandie. She is a Canadian national living, working, and parenting in Japan. She works as an associate professor, advocates for gender and teacher development, and handles homework, laundry, and baseball games while her husband works abroad.
Listen to hear two “difficult women” discuss:
- Feminism, equality, parenting in an outdated system and framework
- A behind the scenes of cultures meeting within a marriage and parenting
- The permission from self and culture at large that women often don’t get when returning to work after maternity leave
- Invisible challenges in the way of visibility, promotions and networking
- The shifts that are happening as more women have access to choices and financial wellbeing
- Being lonely vs alone as a wife and a parent
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Here is a link to Tanja’s dissertation on gender inequity in Japanese higher education https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/oip/317/
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