Eve Rodsky
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Well, especially of what you said.
If a prenup is โ if you're in the same financial situation as your prenup is not as important, to me the only time a postnup is absolutely necessary is if you're both contributing money to the household in โ
work outside the home and one of the parties says it's not worth it for me to work anymore because of greedy work we have a noble prize winning economist named claudia golden who says america thrives on greedy work and so if say your husband is a law firm partner or about to become a law firm partner and he decides he wants to go for it and he sits down with you and says
I care about your unpaid labor.
I see you doing all this work.
I need to lean into this partnership.
It's going to be 100-hour weeks for the next two years, so you'll have to handle everything offscreen.
The economic risk that a woman is taking to do that, to me, merits a postnup because there's no economic risk to the man.
He gets the family law system on his side, and he gets to leave the marriage with an amazing career.
The economic risk is for the person who will give up the paid work because when you reenter the workplace after a pause, we lose exponential worth over time.
So women who have taken an exit, 43% of women do take a career detour after kids and they see up to a million dollars or more of value lost.
in those decisions.
It is chicken and the egg.
What I think is the men who are married are more likely to be able to do greedy work.
So they're more likely to be the men who โ and we see this because the men who โ I'll give you an example.
I have this wonderful โ again, people contact me, like I said, in divorce and funerals and lawsuits and
there's a man who just reached out to me because he wanted to let me know that he was a high powered executive at his firm in the tech world.
And he decided he sort of, his wife has been listening to me for a long time and they've sort of been in the fair play world.