Episode 189: Stop Telling Women to Find an Equal Partner

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Bobbi Thomason studies gender for a living. She was aware of the pitfalls couples can fall into, even those who assumed their relationship would be absolutely equal. Still, when her own marriage foundered over career equality (or the lack of it), she was gutted. At the same time she was reading social media comments urging women to demand a ‘50/50 partner.’ ‘I tried that,’ she thought, ‘and it didn’t work.’

In this episode we hear Bobbi’s story. She says sticking to her belief that she deserved a partner as willing to sacrifice for her as she was for him, has cost her a great deal. But she’s learned through academic research and personal experience that support comes in many forms, and that all women need a ‘village’ to get ahead.

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0:37.8	Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success.
0:55.4	I'm Ashley Milthight.
1:01.4	This time, what does it really mean to have a 50-50 partner?
1:07.1	I had moved and made multiple accommodations for my husband's job. And this was finally the big moment where I needed his accommodations. And for as much as we
1:14.0	had talked about taking turns and supporting each other, that was the moment that my marriage
1:18.8	fell apart. Equality and relationships and finding the support all women need to get ahead. Coming up
1:26.7	on the broad experience.
1:37.3	Back in January, I came across an article in Harvard Business Review with a bit of a clickbait
1:42.5	title, stop telling working women they just
1:46.1	need an equal partnership at home. It was written by an academic. I'm Bobby Thomason. I'm an assistant
1:53.6	professor of applied behavioral science at Pepperdine's Graziea-Dio Business School.
1:59.2	Pepperdine University is just outside Los Angeles.
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