There are a lot of toxic time messages out there, says Rodsky. TAGLE: But that can be harder to do than you think. And if you love them and you want to build a partnership with them, you have to value their time as equal to your time. RODSKY: Everybody around you just gets 24 hours in a day.
She says you have to start with the belief that everyone's time is created equal, whether you bring home the bacon or cook it or both. TAGLE: Rodsky is an attorney, activist and author of the bestselling book "Fair Play," which centers around closing the gender gap in domestic labor. Sometimes called the mental load or the second shift, this is a phenomenon Eve Rodsky attributes to a fundamental mishandling of time.ĮVE RODSKY: As a society, we've chosen to view and value men's time as if it's diamonds and finite, and we've chosen to value women's time as if it's infinite like sand. Life Kit's Andee Tagle has more.ĪNDEE TAGLE, BYLINE: While research shows men are taking on more child care and housework than ever before, women continue to perform more physical and emotional labor in their families, irrespective of age, income or workloads. The solution to this imbalance may start with a better understanding of time. When it comes to questions such as who's making dinner tonight or who's taking the kids to school, will it shock you to know that if there is a woman in the house, it's probably her? A 2020 Gallup poll of more than 3,000 heterosexual couples found that women handle the majority of the domestic workload, including doing the laundry, cleaning and cooking.
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