All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership Audiobook (Free)

Picking right up where All Joy and No Fun still left off, Extremely popular sets out to comprehend why, in a day and time of so-called equality, full-time functioning mothers still carry.

The inequity of home life is among the most profound and perplexing conundrums of our time. Within an period of seemingly unparalleled feminist activism, enlightenment, and change, data display that one area of gender inequality stubbornly remains: the unequal amount of parental function that falls on ladies, no matter their class or professional about Extremely popular: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Relationship status. Extremely popular investigates the reason for this pervasive inequity to answer why, in households where both parents work full-time, moms’ contributions-even those ladies who earn much more than their partners-still outweigh fathers’ when it comes to increasing children and preserving a home.

How can this be? How, within a culture that has researched and lauded the benefits of fathers’ being active, present partners in child-rearing-benefits that extend significantly beyond the well-being of the kids themselves-can a committed action to fairness in relationship melt off upon the entrance of children?

Darcy Lockman drills deep to come across answers, exploring the way the feminist guarantee of true domestic partnership hardly ever, in fact, comes to pass. You start with her very own case-study as Floor Zero, she moves outward, chronicling the encounters of a varied cross-section of women raising kids with men; visiting new moms’ organizations and pioneering co-parenting specialists; and interviewing experts across academic fields, from gender studies professors and anthropologists to neuroscientists and primatologists. Lockman identifies three tenets that have upheld the social gender department of labor and peels back again the reasons men and women are culpable. Her findings are startling-and provide a catalyst for accurate change.