The Gender Nerd Podcast

All things gender, by journalist and sociologist Naomi Darom naomidarom.substack.com

The Gender Nerd Podcast is a science podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 4 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Face creams can't defy gravity

  Jul 15, 202640 minS0

  <p>It’s a very confusing time to be a woman.  There's finally an open conversation about menopause, but our empowerment comes with a heavy dose of marketing. Celebrities are admitting to facelifts, but also setting unrealistic expectations for what a mature woman should look like. And with filters and AI we can look however we want, as long as no one sees us in real life.</p><p>To make sense of all this, I chatted with veteran beauty reporter Cheryl Wischhover. Cheryl writes the newsletter “Good For Your Age,” about beauty from the perspective of a Gen X woman. S...

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  Breaking: Marriage not dead!

  Jun 16, 202635 minS0

  <p>Over the last few years, we’ve gotten a steady stream of takes on the dire state of marriage. Less people are getting married, and some of the traditional reasons to do so - financial security, feeling of obligation, the necessity of bringing children into a settled family - are not longer as compelling. Young women, in particular, are less likely to say they want to get marry someday.</p><p>Sociologist Abigail Ocobock wondered: what about people who only recently got the right to marry? what can same-sex couples tell us about the power of the institution? Her st...

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  Let's not throw fathers a parade (just yet)

  May 26, 202648 minS0

  <p>Kate Mangino was a gender expert working around the world to promote equality, until she realized she didn’t have equality at home. That realization set her on a path to explore what it would take to make domestic labor more equal, so that women are no longer expected to carry the mental, emotional, and physical burden of maintaining a life and household.</p><p>She explores this question in her book, Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home and her podcast with Rachel Childs, Equal-ish.</p><p>We talked about why it's so hard to form equal partnerships, wh...

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  Where did we get our ideas of "the good mother?"

  May 14, 202642 minS0

  <p>Hi! The Gender Nerd is now a biweekly podcast, with smart conversations about gender, sexuality, culture and power. Listen here, on Apple or on Spotify. </p><p>Poet and author Nancy Reddy struggled through early motherhood, from breastfeeding to sleep schedules. What made it worse was her sense that she was failing at some test of ideal motherhood: she had believed that motherhood should be instinctive and fulfilling, that she should just know what to do. Once Nancy started sleeping nights again, she set out to discover who put those unrealistic ideas in her head. Her book, “The Good Mo...

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