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Question: My partner and I both have very demanding careers. We are planning to get married and have kids, but the idea of taking on that new chapter is daunting for me. Can I have both a top-tier career and the family life that I want?
I coach my clients, who are typically women executives with very demanding jobs, to have a conversation as far in advance as possible before they get married, and to approach it like an invisible labour prenup. I find it’s almost always women doing a lot of this labour, and it can be just expected of them because of social conditioning and gender roles. A lot of millennial men have a belief in equity, but sometimes under a lot of stress or sleepless nights, the deeply embedded cultural scripts and values come out, and it may not even be ill-intentioned. Sometimes they just don’t see it.
Then, make the trade-offs tangible. Make it clear: What does it mean that we’re going to be equal partners in parenting? Are you going to split the roles so one person does more execution and the other one does more of the project management and carries the mental load? Maybe we’re going to trade off pick-up at daycare or and one of you will own the project management around doctor’s appointments and school forms. Maybe one of you is better at meal planning and the other is better at cleaning.
“Managers say they are going to be a better worker after detaching – both in terms of their well-being but critically in terms of motivation, productivity and performance during working hours – but then they ding them on promotability.”In the drive to increase productivity, retention and innovation, consultants Wes Adams and Tamara Myles believe we have forgotten where those things come from.
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