This week's episode was amazing! The brilliant Miriam Clayton-Erickson comes on to discuss "expansive masculinity"—the topic of her PhD thesis. She tells me about how traditional ideas of masculinity are limiting to men, and when we expand the idea, we can create a type of masculinty that works better for everyone. We discuss how an unequal distribution of housework got her interested in the topic, what the most interesting findings in her research were, what parts of the conversation about masculinity need to change, and why men who don't want kids should consider vasectomies. Miriam's an amazing communicator; I learned a ton in this interview, and I'm very grateful she came on.

Miriam is a well of knowledge, and as any good academic does, she cited many sources. Here are a few of them:

Miriam's thesis: https://www.proquest.com/openview/53cc88ad468c22fac240f188f11ac47d/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Article on men's engagement with communal roles: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1088868314564789

Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/

The history of home economics: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/books/review/secret-history-of-home-economics-danielle-dreilinger.html

Research into restrictive masculinity: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1471-6402.t01-1-00066