209: Self-Identity and Parenting in Tech with Mia Mollie De Búrca

01:25 - Mia’s Superpower: Adaptability

• Applicable Skills to Basic Computer Programming
  
  
  • Parsing Information
  
  
  • Research
  
  

05:31 - Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology

• Linguistic Relativism (Sapir–Whorf Hypothesis)

08:36 - Parenting While Having a Career in Tech

09:42 - Objectivity and Truth in Software Development

11:04 - Tech Parenthood (Cont’d)

• Maternity Leave and Returning to Work
  
  
  • Part-Time Flexibility
  
  
  • “Keep-in-Touch Days”
  
  


• Returning to Work as an Individual Experience


• Discrimination & Stigma


• Multitasking Expectations For All


• Geographic Differences


• Company Culture

24:21 - Tenure in Tech, Job-Hopping, and Juggling Parenthood

• Parenting in View During the New COVID/Remote Work Era

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." – Elizabeth Stone: teacher and author

• Psychological Safety and Privilege


• Living and Operating in Fear


• Code-Switching


• Visibility of Parents

44:05 - Self-Identity in the Tech Industry

• The Handbook of Return to Work

55:36 - Diversity Hiring

Reflections:

Mia: Psychological safety and privilege.

John: “Just because I’m psychologically safe doesn’t mean everybody else is.”

Laurie: The dichotomy of Mia and Christina’s experiences of being parents in tech.

Christina: It is possible to remain optimistic that Moms in the United States will get better.

Rein: Comfort and guilt in diversity hiring.

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Special Guest: Mia Mollie De Búrca.

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