Some women successfully free themselves from emotional labor, but I don’t want to give up the work of caring. I just want others to care as well.
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The Next Level of Commitment: Revealing Our Money Secrets
A personal essay in which Vanessa Golenia contemplates the ins-and-outs of merging finances as the higher earner — and bigger spender — in her (heterosexual) relationship.
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The 17-Year Itch
In this personal essay, Laura Jean Baker finds that being a feminist married to a progressive man isn’t a fail-safe against sexism occasionally intruding in their marriage.
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The 17-Year Itch
Laura Jean Baker finds that being a feminist married to a progressive man isn’t a fail-safe against sexism occasionally intruding in their marriage.
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How to Stay Married After Your Baby is Born, or, I’m not Divorced Yet
An excerpt of ‘Now My Heart is Full,’ Laura June’s memoir, about the challenges new parenthood placed on her and her husband — and their marriage.
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Japan’s Vegetable-Eating Men
Recent cultural and policy shifts in Japan have made a previously hard-to-find species far more common: the stay-at-home dad.
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A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead)
An illustrated personal essay in which New Yorker cartoonist Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.
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A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead)
Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.