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(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. Other episodes to check out: 6. OVERWHELM: Is our exhaustion a sign that we’re CareTicking time bombs?  246. The Answer to Caregiving Burnout with Ai-jen Poo To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices