Hello, everyone, and welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions.

It's me, your host, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the financial diet and woman who loves to talk about money.

And one of the things that we talk about often on this channel when it comes to talking about money and career is the division of labor at home.

Most of the people watching this channel and this show and listening to this podcast are women.

I'm a woman.

And it has sort of shaken out over the past 30 to 50 years that women have entered the workforce in pretty unprecedented numbers.

And there's a lot of great things about that.

We obviously talk about, you know,

financial independence and liberation, which is very difficult to do if you don't have any

of your own money or in the case of our mothers and grandmother's generations, weren't even

able to do things like have a credit card in your name. So there's obviously a lot of advantages

to entering the workforce in that way. But unfortunately, during that

same time, there wasn't some massive wave of men in these generally heterosexual partnerships

taking up an equivalent amount of domestic labor. And amongst other things, it's put women in

the very precarious position in the workplace, especially if they're mothers, of sort of not being

able to succeed fully on either front because they're

expected to work the way, let's say a man might work, but also

take care of their home life and in many cases their children

at essentially a full-time rate.

We still in general, when we look at the data,

view women as generally being the primary caregiver, even when they work full-time rate, we still in general, when we look at the data, view women as generally being

the primary caregiver, even when they work full-time, even when they're the breadwinner.

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