🎙️ Episode 2: Why Am I Drowning In Laundry?Subtitle: Loads on LoadsCristina has 5 baskets of laundry that have been on her couch for a week. This leads to a much deeper conversation between the moms about the invisible labor women are still carrying. From 1950s housewife propaganda to the real-life stress of asking your partner to please just switch the load, this episode takes a funny, honest, and slightly ranty look at what’s really going on behind the laundry basket and all the loads: mental, emotional, and literal.We unpack it all: gender roles, Eve Rodsky’s Fair Play, suburban vs. city mom laundry problems, and how the so-called “progress” of equality still leaves a lot of socks unmatched.🧺 What We Talk About:The never-ending pile: physical and metaphoricalWhy women are still “the default” at homeCapitalism, gender norms, and the 1950s housewife fantasyGI Bill + suburban development and how it pushed women back in the homeSelf-medicating housewives, and the pressure to smile through itFair Play and how to actually divide labor in modern families📚References1990's Nick at Nite Programming u/mschanandlerbong91. "Do you remember the old days of Nick at Nite?" Reddit, r/sitcoms, 30 March 2025, https://www.reddit.com/r/sitcoms/comments/1f4hxbn/do_you_remember_the_old_days_of_nick_at_nite/. Accessed 21 April 2025.What the 1950s were really like “What the 1950s Were Really Like”. Talking Politics With Mom. Episode 03. https://youtu.be/Mt-gPjjQw1M. Accessed 21 April 2025."Sure he was great but remember she did everything backwards in heels" "Cartoon Image - Bob Thaves, Frank and Ernest Cartoon." Goodreads, https://images.gr-assets.com/quotes/1382202485p8/192006.jpg. Accessed 21 April 2025.Equality and GDP Correlation European Investment Bank. "Gender Equality and Power." EIB.org, https://www.eib.org/en/stories/gender-equality-power. Accessed 21 April 2025.Labor Distribution in the Home Fair Play Policy. "Can We Solve for the Unequal Division of Domestic Labor." FairPlayPolicy.org, https://fairplaypolicy.org/research/can-we-solve-for-the-unequal-division-of-domestic-labor. Accessed 21 April 2025.Fair Play Rodsky, Eve. Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live). G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2019. The GI Bill "G.I. Bill." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill. Accessed 21 April 2025.Women in the 1950’s workforce PBS. “Wome and Work After World War II.” PBS.org. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-work/. Accessed 21 April 2025.What Really Made 1950s Housewives So Miserable. Gershon, Livia. JSTOR DAILY, 8 June 2017, daily.jstor.org/what-really-made-1950s-housewives-so-miserable/. Accessed 23 April 2025.You Go to My Head: Women's Prescription Pill Use in Postwar America. Brown, Erin K., (2022). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 8727. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/8727. Accessed 23 April 2025.The Marriage Bar “The Marriage Bar.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_bar. Accessed 21 April 2025.Breaking Down Patriarchy "Breaking Down Patriarchy." Breaking Down Patriarchy, https://breakingdownpatriarchy.com/podcast/. Accessed 23 April 2025.👯♀️ Meet Your Hosts:Cristina Sansone – Public health pro turned full-time stay-at-home mom of three Jamie Dennison – Corporate exec and mom of twoJess Kahn Marks – Former engineer and mom of twoTiffany Hodges – Writer, actor, filmmaker, and mom of one🔗 Follow Along:Podcast IG: @momsamongotherthingsWebsite: mommyhasquestions.comPresented by: momsamongotherthings.comKey Themes:mental load, motherhood, household chores, invisible labor, gender roles, Fair Play, Eve Rodsky, GI Bill, feminist history, suburban life, emotional labor, laundry, patriarchy, motherhood podcast, modern parenting, stay-at-home moms, working moms
