Stephanie Coontz

Guest on Hidden Brain · Guest on Something You Should Know

Stephanie Coontz is a historian and author known for her influential work on the history of marriage, family, and gender. She is Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families and an emeritus professor of History and Family Studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Coontz has written several landmark books, including *Marriage, A History* and *For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage*.

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…discussing how couples should negotiate and divide household responsibilities
“I think that there's a book called Fair Play that Haley Swenson from The Better Life Lab, who wrote a wonderful afterword for my book, talks about in her little piece about how you have to divide up the chores or redistribute them in ways that the person doing it takes full responsibility for all of that chore, and you have to decide on the minimum standards for those chores.”
on Something You Should Know