Episode 153: Partnership in the Pandemic

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Last month an article appeared in The Atlantic with the title The Coronavirus is a Disaster for Feminism. One striking line reads, ‘The coronavirus smashes up the bargain that so many dual-earner couples have made in the developed world: We can both work because someone else is looking after our children. Instead, couples will have to decide which one of them takes the hit.’

But is that true?

In this episode we meet three married women in Canada, the US, and the UK, and one (male) sociologist, Daniel Carlson, who has studied couples and the division of labour in the home. Kristen Elworthy and Anna Lagerdahl have children and Samantha Murphy doesn’t. Each has found the pandemic has affected her work/life balance in unexpected ways. And it’s not all about housework and childcare - women may be carrying a greater emotional load at this time, which affects many aspects of our lives.

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0:35.9	But for now, just relax.
0:37.8	Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.
0:55.6	I'm Ashley Milne Tite.
0:57.4	This time... Nick, oh, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
1:00.7	Do you want to...
1:01.5	He needs a nap.
1:02.1	Do you want to put him down or do you want me to put him down?
1:04.3	Most of us are shut in at home with our work and often our families.
1:09.9	Does the pandemic mean less equality for women?
1:13.4	I felt really fragmented in terms of trying to focus on work and was really struggling with
1:17.8	that, whereas I was finding that my husband was getting much more of a chance to really
1:22.6	sort of sit down and have his uninterrupted time. And are some of us taking on an invisible load during this time?
1:30.3	I try to get him to contact his family,
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