59. Women, Leadership, and WFH, with Harriet Minter

Questioning how productive you really are while WFH? Wondering how to switch off when your work life is your home life is your work life (and repeat)? Turns out, there are unique challenges women who work from home face, as we head firmly into a working from home revolution.

Today on ARRIVED., I chat to female leadership journalist and author, Harriet Minter, about

– why the language of contemporary women's magazines still assumes outdated tropes of women's work lives – even in 2021 
– how Harriet came to launch the Women in Leadership section in the Guardian newspaper
– how the post-pandemic hybrid work from office / work from home model could actually edge women out of promotions and career advancement
– how to rethink your productivity (and that afternoon nap!)  when working from home 
– why regularly working more than 40 hours/week can lead to disease
– how to set better boundaries around your professional life so that working from home doesn't turn into 'living at work'

Harriet's new book, WFH: How to Build a Career you Love Outside the Office is available now at all fine booksellers.

Connect with Harriet at harrietminter.com | Follow Harriet on Twitter and Instagram @harrietminter

Harriet Minter is a journalist and broadcaster, specialising in female leadership and working from home. She is the author of WFH: How to Build a Career you Love Outside the Office and she founded the Guardian's Women in Leadership section - the first editorial section in a national newspaper to focus on women’s working lives. She is also a columnist for Psychologies magazine and hosts her own radio show, The Badass Women's Hour on TalkRadio. She's written for publications including The Times, The Telegraph and Red magazine.

As well as her journalism, Harriet is also a fully qualified coach and facilitator and trains companies in how to make their workplaces work for their staff. She’s run programmes on female leadership and how to lead a team from your home for everyone from multinationals to start-ups. She is a regular speaker on women's rights, remote working, and the future of leadership. She's given two TED Talks, the first on the importance of learning to fail and the second on yoga, which have had tens of thousands of views.

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