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I Promise This Will Change The Way You Think About Partnership

Anne Helen Petersen · 2 Oct 2025

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  1. Our reading

    The workplace gender revolution was driven more by economic necessity than by feminism or female empowerment.

    Their wordsThis is part of my grand theory of how things ended up so messed up with gender roles converging in the workforce but not at home: part of the source of the workplace gender revolution wasn't feminism or female empowerment, it was necessity.

  2. Our reading

    Career is a means for maximizing utility rather than an end in itself.

    Their wordsBecause your career is a means for maximizing utility; it's not an end in itself.

  3. Our reading

    Spending time on enjoyable activities is as productive as earning money for the purpose of consumption.

    Their wordsIn economic terms, if you take an hour and do something you love that enhances your wellbeing, that's just as productive as if you spent an hour earning money so you could then buy something that brought you the same jollies.

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