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Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Who Cares? : On Nags, Martyrs, the Women Who Give Up, and the Men Who Don’t Get It

by Longreads November 21, 2018October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Next Level of Commitment: Revealing Our Money Secrets

by Sari Botton September 26, 2018October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The 17-Year Itch

by Sari Botton August 7, 2018October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

The 17-Year Itch

by Laura Jean Baker August 7, 2018October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

How to Stay Married After Your Baby is Born, or, I’m not Divorced Yet

by Longreads July 24, 2018October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Japan’s Vegetable-Eating Men

by benhuberman July 6, 2018October 19, 2022

Recent cultural and policy shifts in Japan have made a previously hard-to-find species far more common: the stay-at-home dad.

Posted inEditor's Pick

A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead)

by Sari Botton June 20, 2018October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Sports, Story, Unapologetic Women, Uncategorized

A Woman’s Work: Home Economics* (*I Took Woodworking Instead)

by Carolita Johnson June 20, 2018October 19, 2022

Carolita Johnson tallies the costs and benefits of love and cohabitation as a woman artist living in a patriarchy.

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