Eve Rodsky
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So then your implicit bias was that those women wouldn't be able to do your job.
And I'm not saying that to throw him under the bus.
I'm just showing that even somebody who was the best of intentions trying to say that they wanted to support other types of family life realizes that his job is something that he couldn't do without somebody doing all the other work off screen.
And that's important because the more I say to him,
And all of those other one percenters who do have stay-at-home partners, I say that's great, but it doesn't mean that they have to hold all the cards.
The more that you can bring in transporting your kids to school, right?
Bill Gates did it.
Melinda Gates talked about how he took the kids to school every day and how other fathers were like, wait, if Bill is doing this, then we should be doing it.
I have brain surgeons who tell me that their wife's a stay-at-home wife, but they're holding 30, 40 cards because they know when they understand brain health.
These are literally brain surgeons.
One is a head of a huge hospital who says, I studied neuroscience.
And I know that when I have oxytocin for my kids and I have endorphins and I have dopamine, these are all things I'm getting from my family.
I do better in how I conduct my surgeries, right?
So he does the work for the home.
There are other values than just, oh, this is so hard.
I have to give it over to somebody.
It's a village, but it's also in that space in between when you're doing that mental labor.
It's very gratifying.
I don't hear any men that say to me, I regret it ever.
In 10 years, there's never a man who's called me up and said, I regret that you told me to take my kids to school.