Change Making: What the in/fertility community can learn from the Pregnant Then Screwed mission

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode deals with discussions of in/fertility and/or baby loss.

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We’re excited to bring you a great guest on this episode… Joeli Brearley is the founder of the charity and campaign group, Pregnant Then Screwed which she established in 2015 after her own experience of pregnancy discrimination.

Her organisation is rewriting the narrative for mothers in the UK, whilst working to end the motherhood penalty. Vogue named her as one of their top 25 influential British women who are shaping 2021 and beyond.

Pregnant Then Screwed has released research findings following a survey which they carried out with women in data asking women undergoing fertility treatment how they experience the work environment.

Joeli joins us to discuss the findings and what can be done to improve things.

Apart from running Pregnant Then Screwed, Joeli writes for the Telegraph, is the winner of the Sheila McKenzie: Campaigner of the Year 2021 award, the Northern Power Women: Agent for Change award, is an Amnesty International Human Rights Defender and a member of the United Nations Working Group: Women’s Human Rights in the Changing World of Work.

In January 2021 she took the Government to court for indirect sex discrimination due to the way self-employed mothers were being financially penalised by the income support scheme.

Her debut book: ‘’Pregnant Then Screwed: The Truth about the Motherhood Penalty’’ was published by Simon & Schuster on the 4th of March 2021.

Find out more at https://pregnantthenscrewed.com/

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OUR SPONSOR Finally, our thanks go to Horsfield Menzies, a modern boutique law firm and consultancy practice specialising in workplace matters, for sponsoring this season of the podcast.

You can find out more about Horsfield Menzies here https://www.horsfieldmenzies.com/.

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