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Mental Load: Find Healing In Your Partnership & Balance Inequality in Your Home with Kate Mangino
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:
-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.
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