Women in Labour
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Women in Labour
Women In Labour, is a freewheeling, no-holds-barred, comedy podcast that explores taboo topics related to women, work, family, power and everything in between. Hosted by comedian, Aditi Mittal and filmmaker, Christina MacGillivray, Women In Labour asks questions like, ‘Why do women do the most unpai...
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S2 Episode 10 - Choosing Your Battles
Nidhi Razdan knows how to choose her battles. The rockstar NDTV anchor speaks with Aditi and Christina about why there is such a strong representation...
S2 Episode 9 - How to Find Your Own Voice
This week, Anushka Manchanda drops in for a conversation. Under her moniker Kiss Nuka, she is a multi-disciplinary artist-producer who combines her ar...
S2 Episode 8 - The hidden tax of choice
Shrayana Bhattacharya is easily the most fun economist we know. Working at the World Bank’s Social Protection and Labour unit for South Asia, she is a...
S2 Episode 7 - Networking: Less Work, More Fun
Ragini Das is the co-founder of leap.club, a community-led professional network for women. She speaks with Aditi and Christina about how to make netwo...
S2 Episode 6 - No Room to Fail
Rintu Thomas is a documentary filmmaker, director-producer, and co-founder of Black Ticket Films.
Rintu discusses the narrow margin for error w...
S2 Episode 5 - Opening more roles for Dalit women in the workplace
Dalit History Month co-founder Christina Dhanaraj is also a writer and consultant with over 10 years of experience at companies around the world.
S2 Episode 4 - Building inclusive places of work
Founder of the award-winning Godrej India Culture Lab, and Queeristan author, Parmesh Shahani is a passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusion in corpora...
S2 Episode 3 - Decoding the work of mentorship
While writing her bestselling book Wonder Girls, which maps the lives and career paths of relatable, female role models, engineer-turned-entrepreneur...
S2 Episode 2 - Negotiating your work’s worth
Dr. Ruha Shadab, who founded India’s first professional incubator for Muslim women, joins Christina and Aditi for episode two of our brand new season....
S2 Episode 1 - Women in Labour & why our work isn’t done yet
Journalist Namita Bhandare’s rigorous reporting turned the spotlight on the startling statistics about women and work in India in 2019.
A guest...
Episode 20 - What Bollywood Taught Us
How has the depiction of work changed in popular culture over time? Traditionally, how have women been portrayed in Indian movies vis-a-vis work and c...
Episode 18 - Women & Work in the Time of Coronavirus (Part 1)
We couldn’t not address it. The elephant in the room, or rather, the virus in the air. Releasing more than two months since India went into lockdown t...
Episode 19 - Women & Work in the Time of Coronavirus (Part 2)
We couldn’t not address it. The elephant in the room, or rather, the virus in the air. Releasing more than two months since India went into lockdown t...
Episode 17 - Enabling Others
Our next guest, Ira Singhal was prevented from joining the civil services because of discrimination against her disability. She contested the case, an...
Episode 16 - Finding What Works for You
As the founder of SHEROES, a women-only social network, Sairee Chahal discusses the many ways in which leveraging shared platforms and community netwo...
Episode 15 - In the Driver's Seat
After the untimely demise of her husband, Gulesh Chauhan struggled to keep her family afloat. An unlikely lifeline, working with Uber as a full-time d...
Episode 14 - The Economics of the Issue
If India is to continue to grow its economy, it needs to involve the country’s women, according to economist and public policy analyst Devika Kher. Yo...
Episode 13 - The Stories We Tell
“Movies where women's issues are discussed become referendums on the issue: should women work or not? Should women be attacked or not? They're never a...
Episode 12 - Making Workspaces Work for Women
India’s Female Labour Force Participation rate is at an all-time low across industries except for one—garment manufacturing. In fact, the garment sect...
Episode 11 - Creches are Crucial
Joined by Women in Labour’s Creative Producer, Nandita Gupta, Aditi Mittal speaks to Khushboo and Pooja about the importance of creches for working mo...
Episode 10 - Living a Life of No Regrets
In this episode of Women in Labour, former editor of India Today Magazine, author, wife and mom of two boys, Kaveree Bamzai makes the case that mother...
Episode 09 - Breaking the Cycle of Silence
Former Senior Adviser to the World Bank, recipient of multiple awards, author of ‘Chup’ and founder of ‘Chup Circles’, Dr. Deepa Narayan explores wome...
Episode 08 - Smashing the Patriarchy
Born in 1970s America to two brilliant Indian economists, Anuradha Bhagwati struggled with her identity (and still maintains that her relationship wit...
Episode 07 - Decoding the Data
Dr. Ashwini Deshpande is a professor of Economics at Ashoka University...and our go-to person to help us make sense of all the data around India's dec...
Episode 06 - The Hustle
Award-winning producer Guneet Monga is a hustler—in every sense of the word. In this episode of Women in Labour, the founder of Sikhya films talks to...
Episode 05 - A woman's work is never done
Indian women do more unpaid work at home than anywhere else in the world - and, of course, more than men. Episode 5 of Women in Labour tackles questio...
Episode 04 - In defence of loitering
Ever noticed how our public spaces and workplaces are full of men? Dr. Shilpa Phadke encourages women to take back the city with something revolutiona...
Episode 03 - Work after labour
What does it feel like to have a very public pregnancy? Twitter’s India and South Asia Director of Public Policy, and new mom, Mahima Kaul did just th...
Episode 02 - Levelling the playing field
Can working women thrive in a man's world? Sports reporter Mayanti Langer should know. She talks to us about her boundary-breaking journey that actual...
Episode 01 - Seriously, what's going on?
It’s hard to believe fewer Indian women are working now than fifteen years ago. But it’s true — and Namita Bhandare was one of the first journalists t...
Introduction - Where have India’s working women gone?
Hosted by Aditi Mittal and Christina MacGillivray, Women in Labour is a no-holds-barred comedy podcast that covers a feast of taboo topics related to...