Equal Partners
Improving Gender Equality at Home
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Rewrite gender norms and create a balanced home life with this groundbreaking guide to household equity.
"An inspiring and inclusive guide for rethinking and reworking household gender roles."—Booklist (starred review)
"This book is a beautiful, engaging way to look at the modern family and Mangino works to dismantle gendered assumptions and replace them with structured decision making examples and case studies. A must read."—Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play
In Equal Partners, gender expert and professional facilitator Kate Mangino delivers a comprehensive, practical guide for achieving greater household equity. As millions of women struggle to balance the demands of work and home life, Mangino focuses on what everyday people can do to rewrite gender norms and support a balanced life for both partners.
Quickly moving from diagnosis to solution, Equal Partners adopts an interactive approach, posing questions and offering guided lists and talking points to help readers assess their situations. The book is broad in its definition of gender and gender roles, aiming to foster equality in all homes, regardless of sexual orientation or family structure.
Whether you're a parent, grandparent, or friend, Equal Partners provides the tools to help create a more equitable household and promote gender equality in your wider community. It's time to challenge the status quo and build a fairer future for all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gender consultant Mangino debuts with a thoughtful treatise on how to achieve parity in the division of household labor. Troubled by research findings that women in different-sex relationships contribute more to physical and emotional work around the home than their partners, Mangino provides "ideas, stories, interviews, and suggestions about what you can do to address household gender inequality with your partner." She studies 40 men who match their partners' contributions at home, noting that all are strong communicators, prioritize family time, and aren't afraid of vulnerability. Mangino proffers advice on how to build an equal partnership while dating, suggesting, for example, that "‘the gender talk'... should be an ongoing dialogue" and that those in the "Female Role" (which, she notes, can be occupied by someone of any gender) should make sure their partner supports their career. Mangino's sharp insights into contemporary gender dynamics persuasively argue that there remains much to be done to achieve equality between partners (she reports, for instance, on research that found "working mothers today spend as many hours taking care of their children as stay-at-home mothers did in the 1970s"). The result is a vital manual for understanding how gender norms shape domestic life and how readers can change the script.
