The Gender Nerd Podcast

Over the last few years, we’ve gotten a steady stream of takes on the dire state of marriage. Less people are getting married, and some of the traditional reasons to do so - financial security, feeling of obligation, the necessity of bringing children into a settled family - are not longer as compelling. Young women , in particular, are less likely to say they want to get marry someday. Sociologis...

Kate Mangino was a gender expert working around the world to promote equality, until she realized she didn’t have equality at home. That realization set her on a path to explore what it would take to make domestic labor more equal, so that women are no longer expected to carry the mental, emotional, and physical burden of maintaining a life and household. She explores this question in her book, Eq...

Hi! The Gender Nerd is now a biweekly podcast, with smart conversations about gender, sexuality, culture and power. Listen here, on Apple or on Spotify. Poet and author Nancy Reddy struggled through early motherhood, from breastfeeding to sleep schedules. What made it worse was her sense that she was failing at some test of ideal motherhood: she had believed that motherhood should be instinctive a...