Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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The Problem of Motherhood in America
Spurred by her personal realization about America's "messed-up" treatment of motherhood, Amy Westervelt, journalist and the author of Forget "Having It All": How America Messed Up Motherhood —and How to Fix It (Seal Press, 2018), asks, "How did we get here?" and what it would take it fix it.
"It was a big part of second-wave feminism in the ‘70s… we never welcomed women into a career workforce. We encourage women to have it all and do it all but we don’t actually enable that to happen in a way that doesn’t negatively impact women," says @amywestervelt.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 17, 2018"Instead of looking at how to get more women in power in the existing system, why aren’t we talking about building a different system? ... We need to get back to toppling the patriarchy not just sticking women on top of it," says @amywestervelt on "abandoning corporate feminism."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) December 17, 2018