{"id":286140,"date":"2011-03-01T23:42:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T23:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/01\/women-feel-like-non-persons-if-they-dont-work-says-kirsty-young\/"},"modified":"2011-03-01T23:42:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T23:42:59","slug":"women-feel-like-non-persons-if-they-dont-work-says-kirsty-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/01\/women-feel-like-non-persons-if-they-dont-work-says-kirsty-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Women feel like non-persons if they don&#8217;t work says Kirsty Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"122.640340909\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Liz+Thomas\" rel=\"nofollow\">Liz Thomas<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 9:37 PM on 1st March 2011<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/631438d6688_233x423.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"423\" alt=\"Kirsty Young: Said women who give up their jobs to raise children often are left feeling like 'non persons'\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kirsty Young: Said women who give up their jobs to raise children often are left feeling like &#8216;non persons&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It might help explain why she returned to work within a year of having her first child and a mere six months after the second. <\/p>\n<p>According to Kirsty Young, women who give up their jobs to look after the family are often left feeling like \u2018non persons\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The TV and radio presenter, who is married to millionaire businessman Nick Jones, investigates the changing world of work for her upcoming BBC2 series The British at Work. <\/p>\n<p>The picture that emerges is of a country in which we are more defined by our jobs than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Young, 42, is among the ranks of women deciding to return to work after having children so they feel they have a role beyond motherhood.<\/p>\n<p>She was back at work within a year of having her daughter Freya, now ten, and took up her role as Radio 4\u2019s Desert Island Discs host in 2006 six months after giving birth to daughter Iona, now five.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Work used to be what we did \u2013 now it\u2019s who we are,\u2019 she explained. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s like women say: if they give up work to have children they become a non-person.\u2019 The other major change in the British workplace is that just as a job is no longer for life, neither is a career. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018The most radical change is that my parents would have entered a job and probably done it their whole lives but nobody remotely expects that now,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bd7fc55f201_233x364.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"364\" alt=\"Back at work: Miss Young, 42, with her second daughter Iona\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back at work: Miss Young, 42, with her second daughter Iona<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now, British workers can juggle\u00a0 several careers in a lifetime. <\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time Miss Young has spoken out about women\u2019s role in modern Britain. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>In an interview last year, she spoke of how they sometimes justify their choice to stay at home with their children by treating them as aspirational objects.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019ve become much more child-centric as a society \u2013 it\u2019s a kind of badge of honour to say your life revolves around your children,\u2019 she said at the time. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s partly another function of choice: if you\u2019ve given up work to \u201cdo\u201d children, that choice must be justified. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018And I think people these days are preoccupied with children as an extension of their own success. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018So we try to funnel them into all these areas of achievement: the Chinese lessons or the Kumon maths &#8211; the whole Baby Einstein thing. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think that\u2019s the real modern disease.\u2019 \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Miss Young made her name as the face of Channel 5 news when it began in 1997 before being poached by ITV. <\/p>\n<p>She then returned to Channel 5 before joining the BBC to present Desert Island Discs on Radio 4, and more recently Crimewatch on BBC1.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/631438d6688_233x423-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1361970\/Women-feel-like-non-persons-dont-work-says-Kirsty-Young.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Women feel like non-persons if they don't work says Kirsty Young\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women feel like non-persons if they don&#8217;t work says Kirsty Young<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Liz Thomas Last updated at 9:37 PM on 1st March 2011 Kirsty Young: Said women who give up their jobs to raise children often are left feeling like &#8216;non persons&#8217; It might help explain why she returned to work within a year of having her first child and a mere six months after the second. According to Kirsty Young, women who give up their jobs to look after the family are often left feeling like \u2018non persons\u2019. The TV and radio presenter, who is married to millionaire businessman Nick Jones, investigates the changing world of work for her upcoming BBC2 series The British at Work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Women feel like non-persons if they don&#039;t work says Kirsty Young - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/01\/women-feel-like-non-persons-if-they-dont-work-says-kirsty-young\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Women feel like non-persons if they don&#039;t work says Kirsty Young - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Liz Thomas Last updated at 9:37 PM on 1st March 2011 Kirsty Young: Said women who give up their jobs to raise children often are left feeling like &#039;non persons&#039; It might help explain why she returned to work within a year of having her first child and a mere six months after the second. 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