Reshma Saujani
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715 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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And the reason why that happened is because structurally, we've never made it possible for women in this country to both work and have a child.
Why is the school day start at 8.30?
You know what I mean?
And the workday ended at six and school pickups at 3.30.
Like I'm set up to feel before I've even had my first cup of coffee.
And that became clear to me that like, oh shoot, like this is the thing that I need to fix.
Like if I'm going to get to gender equality, if we're going to actually solve this, you have to fix American motherhood.
I stepped down from Girls Who Code, the largest nonprofit for women and girls in the world, to go build a nonprofit on motherhood.
People thought I was nuts.
Why would you do that?
That's a big issue, tech and women, to motherhood.
And when I first started going into rooms and talking about this, people looked at me like I was crazy, right?
Like that I was talking about
something that didn't exist.
What do you mean that we were going to actually offer women paid leave or childcare?
How do we actually change work?
And then, and so much of what you talk about, which is like ambition, you can't even realize your ambition if you're in a diaper at work two weeks after having a baby, right?
Like we could build, like women could fully reach, I think their fullest potential if we gave women the time.
I think it's a year.
You know what I mean?
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