How to Have a More Equal Partnership: Gender Roles, Social Conditioning, Cognitive Labor, & Maternal Gatekeeping

Are women naturally more nurturing or are these roles simply the result of social conditioning? Any discussion revolving around a given gender’s “natural” propensity towards certain roles is guaranteed to quickly get heated. In her book, Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home, Kate Mangino discusses how predefined gender norms hurt both men and women and outlines steps for how couples can move towards more equal partnerships. Get full access to Mind the Gap at

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How to Have a More Equal Partnership: Gender Roles, Social Conditioning, Cognitive Labor, & Maternal Gatekeeping is an episode from Evolving with Nita Jain: Health | Science | Self-Improvement by Insights designed to help you strive, thrive, and optimize — science, psychology, philosophy, health, longevity, productivity, entrepreneurship, and everything in between.

This episode is 9:09 long.

This episode was published on Sep 29, 2022.

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