Navigating Work in a Post-COVID Era

Amy is joined by guest Fyza Parvis Jazra to continue their discussion of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. This is Part Two of Three and covers the distinction between sex and gender, a girl’s transition from subject to object, and reaching our potential as human beings.

Fyza Parviz Jazra, originally from Pakistan, is a Graduate Student in Stanford’s MLA Program. She is currently working on her Master’s thesis on the Seventeenth-Century English interest in Arabic Astronomy. Previously she worked as a Software Engineer at Apple. She loves to read 19th-century fiction and, along with her husband, is a zealous bibliophile. She is also a mother to a 19-month-old boy.