[ONLINE] – Crisis Conversations — Live From Better Life Lab

The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting virtually everything about the way we work, live, connect with one another and expect from our government, businesses, communities and each other. And it’s exposing the deep cracks and inequities in American society. We can’t go back. So what will it take to create a fairer future of work and family? That’s what the Better Life Lab explores every week. Join us on Zoom to share stories, make sense of what’s so rapidly unfolding, and imagine together a better new normal.

Join us on Friday, June 19 at 1 pm Eastern time, for a 30-minute interactive conversation on fathers in the pandemic. Before COVID-19 hit, women spent about twice as much time as men doing childcare and housework – an unequal gendered division of labor at home that contributed to gender inequality at work and the persistent gender pay gap. Is the pandemic changing that dynamic? And if so, will it last?

Host:

Brigid Schulte
Director, Better Life Lab at New America

Guests:

Dan Carlson
Assistant Professor of Family, Health and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah and author of Men and Women agree: During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Men are Doing More at Home

Glen “Beleaf” Henry
Rapper and artist who documents his life as a black father on his YouTube Channel, beleafinfatherhood and his TEDx Talk: What I’ve learned being a stay at home Dad

Dan Herman
New father, primary caregiver and member of the New York City Dads Group

Haley Swenson
Better Life Lab deputy director and author of the new report, “Engaged Dads”