Parenting
Parenting
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Do you know your packaged food ? - Episode 85
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
Sunday Apr 30, 2023
In Part 1 of this 2 part series, we talk to Ms. Anuradha Sridharan, on packaged food. She has focused on decoding the nutrition facts of packaged foods and her blog has 80+ posts on detailed analysis of popular packaged/junk foods. In this episode, Anuradha shares her story on how she started closely looking at packaged foods. She talks about why each one of us should be aware about packaged food. She details out what exactly is packaged food(yes, there is a big element of surprise here) and what is it that we should look for in the labels that will help us in taking decisions around what goes into our body.
If you would love to read more details on this episode , click here -
https://www.thenewindianwoman.com/post/do-you-know-your-packaged-food
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Fears about having a child - Episode 81
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
Saturday Feb 11, 2023
In Part 2 of this 2 part series, we continue our chat with Ms. Anurama Suresh on the fears todays young women and young couple have, about having and rearing a child. Listen to this, for you may be able to make a difference to the young couple in your life. Anurama Suresh is an accredited coach with several years of coaching experience and has her niche in fertility coaching.
If you would love to read more details on this episode , click here -
https://www.thenewindianwoman.com/post/fears-about-having-a-child
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Understanding Adolescents - Part 2 - Episode 78
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
In Part 2 of this 2 part series, we continue talking to Ms. Gowthami Saraf who has a lot of experience with parents, teachers and children. We focus on what should the New Indian Woman podcast listeners know about the adolescents in their life.
If you would love to read more details on this episode , click here - https://www.thenewindianwoman.com/post/understanding-adolescents-part-2
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Understanding Adolescents - Part 1 - Episode 77
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
In this episode we speak to Ms. Gowthami Saraf who has a lot of experience with parents, teachers and children. We focus on what should the New Indian Woman podcast listeners know about the adolescents in their life.
If you would love to read more details on this episode , click here - https://www.thenewindianwoman.com/post/understanding-adolescents-part-1
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
This Handmade Life - Part 1 - Episode 75
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
In these current times when we use our hands mainly on devices, Dr. Nandita Iyer's book, This Handmade Life, really nudges us to discover or rediscover what we would like to do with our hands. In Part 1 of this 2 part series, she introduces this concept to the New Indian Woman listeners and talks about some core skills and the benefits that lie waiting for us.
If you would love to read more details on this episode , click here - https://www.thenewindianwoman.com/post/are-you-ready-for-handmade-life
Friday Sep 30, 2022
When a 2 year break extends to 10 years - Part 2 - Episode 74
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
In the last episode, we met with someone who had to leave her career due to family circumstances. In Part 2 of the discussion, we focus on how life situations have extended her break to 10 years. We also examine what this meant to her emotionally, especially so considering the roles she performed in her family before and even soon after her marriage. She talks about the challenges she faced, how she reached a state wherein physically and emotionally she had reached rock bottom, when she felt divorce could be an answer.
And then she shares with us what she did, to turn the situation around, well, almost!
For more details on this episode, click here -https://www.thenewindianwoman.com/post/when-a-2-year-break-extends-to-10-years
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Leaving a promising career and its impact - Part 1- Episode 73
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
Saturday Sep 17, 2022
In this episode, we meet with someone who had to leave her career due to family circumstances. She talks about how she was independent before her marriage and how she supported her family. And later, what led her to leave her wonderful career, that too when she was enjoying it and was getting recognized for it. This is Part 1 of a 2 Part series.
For more details on this episode, click here - https://www.thenewindianwoman.com/post/leaving-a-promising-career-and-its-impact
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Are there gender based roles at home ? - Episode 61
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
Saturday Mar 12, 2022
In this episode, we explore how our day to day activities are influenced by our gender. Not at workplace, but in our own homes. Broadly we may be aware of what is the primary role each family member is playing in the house. Many fall into the area of shared responsibilities. But still, are there things you do in your house only because you are a woman ?
You may wonder why this question should be examined. It is very easy to talk about equality at workplace, equality everywhere. But what about our own families ? Are you aware if gender influences what you do ? We may all be aware of the undue load of invisible work on the woman - managing home and a job, taking care of the children or elderly and what not. Quite often, we may think we have distributed the responsibilities in our own homes and it is a fair game. But, is it ?
I speak to women across various age groups and profiles probing a few questions - whether there is a gender based distribution of work at home ? What is the one thing they would want out of their plate, if they had an option - the one thing that is on them because of being a woman ? What is it they expect from their family or extended family members in terms of better understanding the additional responsibilities carried out as a woman ?
At the end of this episode, you may want to ask some of these questions to yourself. Why ?
Listen on ..
What the New Indian Woman podcast is about
As you may already be aware, this podcast has 2 focus areas. One, We examine the challenges faced by today's Indian woman and propose ACTIONABLE strategies in the Indian context, on a wide variety of topics - right from identifying their passion to better productivity and parenting. Second, we meet women who chose to aspire or have a dream beyond their defined roles and facilitate sharing of what worked and what didn’t, for them. Today's episode falls in the first category.
And in the process, my aim is to help you, The New Indian woman, to realize your potential, chase your dreams and aspirations, utilize the wonderful opportunities available in today's world.
What's in this episode:
Same questions, posed to women of different age groups, profiles and life stages. It is interesting to see some things common, affecting every woman. It is also interesting to see how perspectives differ and sometimes, how the seemingly smallest of things can be such a big bother for them.
One important common observation for me was about how this question was new for all of them - most of them started stating there are no gender based roles, yes, in their own ways. But when probed further. One could make out they were shouldering additional home maintenance responsibilities just because they are women. Sometime there was almost a denial, stating what is done is based on who is skilled at what. And sometimes, there was just plain acceptance, resigning to the fact this is how it is going to be.
It would be very interesting to ask these questions to yourself and openly, without any bias or any attempts to defend, examine your feelings towards this. You may even want to examine a list of what all you do. You may think there is no point in examining this, but do remember, there are or will be children around you, who will imbibe this and accept this as the default. So, you examining these questions and talking about it, as always, would be a good starting point.
There is an interesting article on this topic, albeit in the western contex.t I am not sure of the solution proposed in this context, but I feel it is a good read. This is about a lady who came up with a Shit I do excel and realized it is huge, she came up with this when she felt there was a huge amount of invisible work done by her - https://www.fastcompany.com/90419266/this-game-can-help-you-divide-household-duties-and-emotional-labor-fairly#:~:text=As%20Rodsky%20began%20to%20mull,provider%20was%20taking%20its%20toll.
These discussions are intended to let us understand and appreciate these perspectives. Plus, these should be prompts for us to examine our own context.
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