‘A Disaster for Feminism’

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Nearly a year ago, The Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis predicted the pandemic would be “a disaster for feminism” and far too many of her predictions have proven true. With women leaving the workforce at unprecedented rates, why has the pandemic’s burden fallen so much harder on them? And what can we, as a society, do about it? Also: Jim and Maeve answer listener questions about the virus (and discuss chickens). Please fill out our listener survey! theatlantic.com/socialdistancesurvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jim. Hi,
0:06.6	Hi, Mave.
0:07.6	Hi, how are you?
0:08.6	I'm okay.
0:10.1	How are you?
0:11.1	Thanks so much for having me back again. Oh yeah, thank you for having, wait.
0:17.5	Thank you for coming back and talking to us.
0:20.3	For your podcast, Social Distance.
0:23.0	Oh yeah.
0:24.0	Mave, thank you for coming on.
0:26.0	Social Distance, The Atlantic's Podcast about the Pandemic.
0:30.0	I'm James Hamplin, I'm a staff writer,
0:32.0	joined by Maeve Higgins Higgins who is a writer and comedian and podcast host and how author and
0:40.0	We are not joined today by Catherine Wells who is in Texas right now.
0:45.0	I hope she's okay down there.
0:48.0	Yeah, it's very unprecedentedly snowy and cold and there's been a lot of power outages as I'm sure people have heard.
0:55.4	I think she's okay. I spoke with her yesterday and she didn't seem to be
0:58.7	hypothermic. I mean even the fact that you were able to speak to her is good. I hope you didn't waste her time with loads of chit-chat because some people's phones like their batteries are low and oh yeah, it was straight to business.
1:15.0	But that's how I prefer to do things.
1:16.0	Hi, hi, Catherine, I need to borrow some money.
1:19.0	I know you're in Texas at the moment, but I
1:21.0	better need some money.
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