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Hello and welcome to Your Radical Questions, where I put your questions to one of our radical guests.

My name is Eliza Filby, standing in for a mole this week.

I'm an author and historian who specialises in generational change.

This is your chance to engage directly with the super smart

and interesting people we have on this podcast and ask them about their ideas for the future.

This week, I'm joined by Dr. Jilly Kay, who's an expert in feminist media and cultural studies

at Loughborough University. We've just been talking about the polarisation of young women and

the rise of what's called the Femisphere.

And if you haven't already heard the main podcast where we talk about that in more detail,

I do recommend you go and listen.

Our first question is from Sally in Scarborough.

She says, men and women are polarising.

Women are deciding that relationships with men are just too difficult.

Therefore, my question is, due to patriarchal systems which serve to punish women with unfair levels

of disadvantage when it comes to domestic, career, reproductive and emotional labour, what can be

done to get men to rebalance the situation? This is a biggie. That's a great question.

That's a really big, yeah, great question. And can I, let's begin by just asking you,

do you think Sally's right? Yes, absolutely. I mean, I think there's definitely been some changes

in the kind of the allocation of, of, of, of, of, of, of, but, you know, women are overwhelmingly kind of taking on, yeah,

the, you know, sometimes what's called like the double burden

or the triple burden of waged work, care work, care for elderly parents as well as children and so on.

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