This is a different, more personal post, in which I share an interview that combines some insight into my motherhood, something about innovation and something about how I use artificial intelligence.
Last July I was interviewed by the platform Mamis Digitales, which is dedicated to promoting training courses and managing professional opportunities for women who want to better balance their lives as mothers and professionals, reinventing themselves to be digital professionals (community managers, virtual assistants, copywriters, etc.).
They contacted me through linked-in and I agreed to do the interview without thinking too much about it, because I think that one of the things we lack when women trace our professional and family path is references: knowing how other people have done it, different ways of organizing.
This morning I was thinking that perhaps conciliation does not consist of women organizing ourselves to do everything, but rather that the system adapts, on the one hand (legislation, reduction of working hours, more vacations, productivity derived from the implementation of technology, …), and, on the other hand, that the male group that decides to have children, and the whole society in general, gets more involved in raising them.
I was wondering if the fact of telling how I had organized myself contributed to perpetuating a model in which we are the ones who organize ourselves, in which the system does not adapt and the group of fathers no longer live their paternity. It must be said that the conditions for motherhood when my children were born were worse than the current ones (so the system is in the process of adaptation, slow as always), and that new co-responsible masculinities emerge (although they are news, which implies that it is not something common and that it is even slower).
My conclusion, and that is why I share it, is that, although I would like it not to be necessary, sharing different ways of organizing to have a good maternity without giving up the independence, social life and opportunities that professional life gives is important, and it is part of the path that we have to take as a society to offer the female group that wants to be a mother (and those who want to be a father), a conscious maternity, a conscious professional career, and in general a conscious life.
Here you have the video podcast on YouTube.
Thank you very much Irene Llull for reminding me that I had done the interview, for being attentive, for sharing and for this tremendous capacity to manage information that you have.