Posts by Giovanna Rossi
287 Just Giovanna: Well Woman Summer Reset – create what you want for your body, mind and spirit
This week on The Well Woman Show, we start the summer reset for your body, mind, and spirit. I walk you through a process to connect to the result you want to create and why. Let’s face it, it’s been a rough couple of years, and this summer we’re going to press the reset button by engaging with research-backed tools, routines, and practices.
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286 Making Motherhood Work with Dr. Caitlyn Collins
On the well woman show this month, I interview Dr. Caitlyn Collins, Caitlyn Collins is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. She studies gender inequality in the workplace and family life. Her award-winning book, Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving (Princeton University Press, 2019), is a cross-national interview study of 135 working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. Recently, Collins is engaged in collaborative research to probe how the COVID-19 pandemic shapes mothers’ employment. She is interviewed often in national media, and she has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, and Slate.
Dr. Collins is a featured speaker for WFRN Conference in June. Founded in 1997, The Work and Family Researchers Network, or WFRN, is an international organization dedicated to advancing the impact of work-family scholarship on lives, practice and policy. Nearly 2500 researchers have joined the WFRN as members. The WFRN is hosting its next conference June 23-25, 2022 in New York City. Information about joining the WFRN and its upcoming conference can be found at WFRN.ORG.
The Well Woman Show is a media partner for WFRN. I’ll be interviewing several WFRN scholars leading up to the June conference. Find them at NPR.org.
On the show we’ll discuss:
Why The U.S. has the weakest social policies to support families of any western industrialized country.
How the U.S. society has long told mothers that their work-family conflict is their fault and their problem to solve.
And how we can find better solutions that meet the needs of all families in the United States, regardless of income, education, race, or marital or immigration status.
The book Dr. Collins recommended is: Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child’s Potential, Fulfilling Society’s Promise a book by Dana Suskind and Lydia Denworth
Some articles that may be of interest:
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/commentary/celebrate-moms-beyond-flowers-and-candy/article_894b354c-cd48-11ec-9bae-ab0ff6a5ba71.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/08/why-havent-us-mothers-returned-work-child-care-infrastructure-they-need-is-still-missing/
https://nmfamilyfriendlybusiness.org/the-three-as-of-rebuilding-your-workforce/
https://parentnation.org/
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285 Just Giovanna: Beyond Flowers and Public Statements: A Guide to Celebrating Working Moms
This week on the Well Woman Show, in honor of Mother’s Day, I challenge the idea that celebrating moms means nothing more than flowers and nice public statements. One of the greatest challenges working moms face is that we’re expected to mother like we don’t have a job and work like we don’t have children. This makes absolutely no sense, and I believe we can change this for all families in this decade.
On the show I share four steps that can help employers, elected officials, candidates as well as family members take real action to support the working moms in your lives.
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282 Breadwinners and Breadmakers with Jaime Gloshay
On the Well Woman Show this month we’re celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women in recognition of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month. Whether deliberate or unconscious, bias makes it difficult for women to move ahead. Knowing that bias exists isn’t enough. Action is needed to level the playing field. Today I am interviewing Jaime Gloshay, Co-Director of Native Women Lead where she co-leads key efforts in capital expansion, fundraising, and advocacy while leading program design, international development, and evaluation oversight.
Previously, Jaime led Accion’s Native Lending program managing a portfolio of $1M+ and supported the development of Nusenda’s Co-Op Capital initiative to pilot relationship-based lending. In 2019, she was appointed to lead the tribal subcommittee for the State of NM Census Complete Count Commission which activated a $11.5M state investment to ensure a 2020 complete count. Jaime holds a BA in Native American Studies & Political Science and an MPA in Public Management from the University of New Mexico. Jaime is a citizen of the Navajo, White Mountain Apache, and Kiowa Nations. She is a mother of three residing in Tiwa Territory. Jaime enjoys hiking, being on her ancestral homelands, and reading to restore.
Race and ethnicity compound the gender pay gap: According to a 2020 analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the median annual earnings for full-time, year-round work for Native American women was 60% of White non-Hispanic men’s. (September 2021, IWPR #C505 Fact Sheet). Are there other data or sources of information you are using that you’d like people to know about? This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #breakthebias and the campaign explores the daily challenges still faced by women in the workplace and society.
On the show we’ll discuss:
- How Native Women Lead serves the indigenous populations.
- The struggle with the racial and gender pay gap especially in native communities
- How we can challenge the bias surrounding native individuals.
The books she recommended:
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong
Dear Sonali, Letters to the Daughter I Never Had by Lynn Toler
You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/282show.
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281 Menstruation is Our Strength with C. Nichole and Raffinae LaJuan
Today on the Well Woman Show, I interview Wombilee co-founders, Raffinae LaJuan and C.Nichole. Wombilee is a Black women-owned menstrual pad company that provides a non-toxic, chemical-free menstrual pad. Wombilee’s mission is to provide a healthier option for women and girls and to empower them to acknowledge menstruation as strength.
Raffinaé is the CEO of the food marketing company, Inspire Brand Management, with clients on three continents. She is also the Founder of Moms for Medals, a non-profit organization that focuses on creating new successful generational statistics in teen mothers and young women. C.Nichole is a business Woman, singer-songwriter, non-profit founder, author, boutique owner, and Pan Africanist. C.Nichole started as a freelancer in TV/Film production before switching industries and starting her own marketing company, emphasizing experiential marketing.
You can find notes from today’s show at wellwomanlife.com/281show.
The book they recomenned were Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo https://bookshop.org/books/because-of-winn-dixie-9781536214352/9781536214352
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