Father's Day Bonus: Dad As the Lead Parent

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🗓️ 18 June 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This Father's Day, one dad on his role as lead parent, and what it means for his career, psyche, and marriage. With Andrew Moravcsik, an accomplished author, academic, and husband to Anne-Marie Slaughter (yeah, the one who literally wrote the book on women in the workplace).

This bonus episode is one of our favorites from the Note to Self archive, and was first released as part of our now award-winning series Taking the Lead. We thought it fitting to return to today.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Manouche and Happy Father's Day to all you hardworking dads out there.
0:06.3	We know you are busting your butts alongside your wives and your partners to try and find
0:11.1	some balance between your professional and family lives.
0:14.7	And so, as promised, we have something special for you.
0:18.7	It's the final chapter of our award-winning series about parents and work and entrepreneurship.
0:23.6	It's called Taking the Lead.
0:26.1	And in this episode, we are specifically talking dads and the roles that they play in modern
0:31.7	families and how much that role is changing and how it hasn't changed at all.
0:37.1	If you haven't heard the series, don't worry.
0:40.4	But if you aren't intrigued and do want to hear the other episodes, just go back in your
0:44.7	podcast feed to May.
0:46.7	Okay, we'll be back on Wednesday with a new note to self episode.
0:50.4	But for now, enjoy this little morsel of fathering goodness.
0:54.5	And I'm wishing you a relaxing day, Daddy-O.
0:57.8	We started out like most couples start out, I think, a little bit naive.
1:01.2	We thought we're a true career couple and we'll also split the parenting 50-50.
1:07.2	And it turned out that my wife took a succession of jobs.
1:11.8	First it was academic administration, then more complicated academic administration being
1:19.0	a dean here at Woodward Wilson School.
1:20.9	And then she was director of policy planning for Hillary Clinton.
1:24.4	And now she's head of a NGO that required that she be outside of the home for long periods
1:32.0	of time and that constrained her schedule much more than mine was constrained.
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