Samantha L. Tornello—Associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State and parent of 2—joins Vance and Rachel to discuss their research on how LGBTQ couples divide housework and childcare.
Listen to learn about:

Simone de Beauvoir and Dorothy Gale from Kansas agreed that housework is torture
How families divide up gendered work at home differently depending on the parents’ genders
Communication as key to satisfaction with the division of housework and childcare—and why that satisfaction matters more than who does what

https://pure.psu.edu/en/publications/transgender-and-gender-non-binary-parents-pathways-to-parenthood
This episode’s title pays homage to Dr. Charlotte J. Patterson, PhD, without whom this episode would not exist.
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