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Hello everybody and welcome back to So Your Parents Are Old.

I'm Vanessa Rigoriades.

I just wanted to come on to say we are going to be talking about females, all sorts of females on this episode.

And for all the guys out there who are listening, we know you take care of your parents.

We are just talking about macro trends. and the macro trends do show that women tend to be the ones who do the bulk of the caregiving in this country.

So I just wanted to come on and say, do not take offense.

We are not talking about you personally, but I hope you enjoy this episode.

In the United States, about two-thirds of family caregivers are female. And that's on top of all the other domestic labor that we are

doing. I'm talking about child care, cooking, cleaning, making doctor's appointments for everyone, doing the administrative tasks,

again, for everyone. Should I go on? So we're going to talk about that burden and more with my

guest today, who is Corrine Lowe, a professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania. She wrote an

excellent book called Having It All. And I am telling you, this is an actually incredibly well

written book, but now I'm going to read you the subhead. What data tells us about women's

lives and getting the most out of yours.

And so that may sound a little heavy, but she really makes it go down pretty smoothly.

And I feel like she maybe has all the answers.

She's like that Emily Oster for people who are interested in this gender question at home. So welcome, Kareen.

Thank you so much for having me. I can't wait to dive into this. So here's the question. In your

book, you say, well, it's not really having it all. It's having it almost. So is there such a thing as having it all? Yeah. So that is,

when we chose the title, we chose it to sort of be ironic and we wanted to show that irony a little bit.

And so if you've seen the book, the cover of the book has like dinner on fire and like your inbox exploding and your coffee spilled and your baby crying.

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