Mental Load: Find Healing In Your Partnership & Balance Inequality in Your Home with Kate Mangino
Jul 18, 2024
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Gender expert Kate Mangino discusses the mental load in families, highlighting stages and costs, shocking childcare statistics. She delves into reevaluating gender roles, navigating mental load in relationships, addressing inequalities in parenting, and promoting open communication in partnerships.
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Quick takeaways
Understanding stages of mental load is crucial for balanced partnerships.
Partners missing out on mental load incur hidden costs in relationships.
Shocking statistics highlight evolution in childcare responsibility over decades.
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329. Mental Load: Find Healing In Your Partnership & Balance Inequality in Your Home with Kate Mangino
Gender expert Kate Mangino discusses the depths of carrying the mental load in a family–even when you have a partner who wants to be supportive.
Listen to this conversation with your partner(s):
-The stages of mental load – and why “helping out” or completing a task doesn’t reduce it;
-The cost to partners who miss out on fully participating in the mental load of the household; and
-The shocking statistics about the difference between childcare in the 70s and now.
Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home is available in paperback wherever books are sold on August 20th.
About Kate:
Kate Mangino is a gender expert who works with international organizations to promote social change. She has written and delivered curricula in over 20 countries about issues such as: gender equality, women’s empowerment, healthy masculinity, HIV prevention, and early and forced childhood marriage. Kate is the author of Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home.