How do you typically divide up the housework at home?
Want a way to divvy up that labor as equitably as possible with your partner?
What changes can you make that are a win for everyone in your home and in society?
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Listen, Learn and Act with this Toolkit based on Lauren’s Inflection Point conversation with Eve Rodsky, author of Fair Play. A Game-Changing Solution For When You Have Too Much To Do (And More Life to Live).
"50/50 is a terrible idea...That's just a score keeping exercise in futility. So I like to say let's throw out 50/50 & instead focus on ownership."
-Eve Rodsky
LISTEN TO LAUREN’S CONVERSATION WITH EVE RODSKY.
In the post–Lean In era, women are focused on gaining equality in all aspects of life—from political representation to paychecks—but it all starts at home. Countless news articles chronicle the costs of unpaid and “invisible” emotional labor to women’s health, well-being and career success. But, no one has offered a real solution to the hot-button issue of domestic workload, until now.
Eve Rodsky has created a game-changing, sustainable solution with The New York Times Best Seller Fair Play – a system for re-balancing the domestic workload between partners and putting an end to the invisible work that women do, regardless of whether they work outside the home—an idea recognized as one of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas.
Go to FairPlayLife.com to learn more, and sign up for the email newsletter to get the cards, tips and strategies to play fair
Follow @EveRodsky and @FairPlayLife for game-changing tips
Read Eve’s Harper’s Bazaar Article: Everyone is Home Right Now, But Who is Doing all the ‘Home’ Work?
Consider Eve’s WSJ Essay: Fairness in Housework Doesn’t Mean 50/50
Recognize that all time is created equal—time is not money, and it’s not all on you.
Reclaim your right to be interesting. Make time for the active pursuit of what makes you you.
Start where you are now with an understanding of who you are and why you want to play fair.
Be a change maker in your own home by divvying up the workload fairly. When you have agency at home, you will have agency everywhere.
Share your learnings with a friend and keep a practice of checking in with each other on your Fair Play fails and successes.
ABOUT EVE RODSKY
Eve Rodsky received her BA from the University of Michigan and her JD from Harvard Law School. After working in foundation management at J.P. Morgan, she founded the Philanthropy Advisory Group to advise families and charitable foundations on best practices. In her work with hundreds of families over a decade, she realized that her expertise in family mediation, strategy, and organizational management could be applied to a problem closer to home—a system for couples seeking balance, efficiency, and peace in their lives. Rodsky was raised by a single mother in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children. Fair Play is her first book.
Her book Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution For When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) details exactly how to divide and conquer with your partner, the unending duties at home.
Eve and Lauren spoke for her podcast and public radio show Inflection Point, at The Battery in San Francisco May, 2020. Listen.