Career Practitioner Conversations with NCDA
Career Practitioner Conversations is a podcast series from the National Career Development Association (NCDA). NCDA provides research, resources, and support to career development professionals all over the world in their work to empower others to achieve their career and life goals. These conversations with industry leaders cover a wide variety of relevant topics for today's career practitioners. Legal Disclaimer: NCDA provides these episodes solely for educational and informational purposes. Opinions expressed in these episodes do not necessarily reflect the views of NCDA. NCDA disclaims any liability relating to any podcast content.
Career Practitioner Conversations with NCDA
Parenting in the Workplace with Sharon Glazer
This episode is the first in a new Presidential Series - hosted by NCDA president, Dr. Lakeisha Mathews. It features a conversation about parenting in the workplace with Dr. Sharon Glazer, Professor of Cross-Cultural Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of Baltimore. The conversation addresses challenges faced by working parents today and tips for connecting them with resources and strategies to help them thrive, not just survive. Also included in this episode: ideas to inform employer decisions about policies and benefits that impact working parents and a call for more integration of systems, laws, and policies that support parents and families.
Dr. Sharon Glazer is a Full Professor at The University of Baltimore and President of Healthy Organization consulting. She has over 25 years of teaching, consulting, and research experience around the world, with expertise in cross-cultural issues in occupational stress & health and organizational development. Listeners/colleagues are welcome to contact her at: sglazer@ubalt.edu or sglazer@healthyorganization.com
Research shared in this episode:
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/i-feel-like-a-1950s-housewife-how-lockdown-has-exposed-the-gender-divide
- https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/04/employers-support-parental-leave
- https://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Parent-Time-Use.pdf
Additional resource:
- The Burnout Study in Women Fact Sheet