Is There Anything You Can Do to Help Your Women?

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professionally ambitious women really have only two options when it comes to their personal partners, a supportive partner or no partner at all. Anything in between ends up being a morale and career sapping morass. I mian en again, bring all your leaderships quilts, you know, start reviewing the agreement. Start renegotiating the contract. It's not like people don't know how to do this,. You do this every single time you have an issue with anybody at work, in a team or right?

Simmering resentments over whose career comes first. Bickering over household tasks. Arguments over who should pick up the kids this time. This is the portrait of two-career coupledom in much of the popular media. But for a lot of couples, the reality is much rosier. Mutually supportive relationships let us take career risks, help us be more resilient to setbacks, and even “lean in” at work. In this episode, we talk with three experts to help us paint a picture of what a truly supportive dual-career relationship looks like, and understand how to get our own relationships closer to that ideal. Guests: Jennifer Petriglieri, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, and Stephanie Coontz. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network. For links to the articles mentioned in this episode, as well as other information about the show, visit hbr.org/podcasts/women-at-work.