Episode 120: Does Your Partner Support Your Success?

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This time we're talking about couplehood and careers. My first guest is shocked that her mentees' boyfriends refuse to marry them until they - the men - are the main breadwinner. My second guest isn't surprised at all. In this episode we talk about who supports whom in heterosexual and same-sex couples, and what that support looks like. We discuss how dual-career couples can maintain partnerships where each person gets what they want and need. And we get tips on using team-building techniques to good effect at home. With Diane Reichenberger and Avivah Wittenberg-Cox.

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0:44.7	I'm Ashley Miltight.
0:46.4	This time, two career couples are everywhere.
0:49.0	It's the norm in much of the Western world.
0:51.7	But does each half truly support the other?
0:55.0	I'm hearing it more and more, that not only is there a reluctance or a discomfort when
1:02.6	women are making more than men in a relationship, but it's actually hurting relationships.
1:09.6	But maybe we shouldn't be surprised.
1:11.9	The 20th century was the rise of women.
1:14.4	The 21st century is the adaptation of everybody else to that rise, companies, countries, and men.
1:22.0	It's going to be a little complicated, right?
1:24.9	It's going to take a few more generations.
1:26.4	People who keep thinking
1:27.5	that this is going to happen in one generation, no way. Coming up, how careers and relationships
1:33.3	intertwine. A few months ago, I came across an article in the Harvard Business Review with this provocative title.
1:47.7	If you can't find a spouse who supports your career, stay single.
1:52.5	When I got in a discussion with some of you about this on Facebook recently, and you were all women,
1:57.9	your response is varied from, well, of course, to support can mean a lot of
2:02.2	different things, to men just see it as a given that women will support their careers.
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