Now it’s time for women to get to work on the biggest domestic job of our time: putting the country back on a course of civil public conversation.
The recent annual release of the American Time Use Survey confirms what women already know: It’s up to us to clean house. Once again, women spent more time—about 30 percent more—doing housework than men. For most women, the surprise is that the number is so low.
Now it’s time for women to get to work on the biggest domestic job of our time: putting the country back on a course of civil public conversation.
As an African-American journalist and a white author/college professor, we’re already practicing what we preach. We’ve spent the past year bringing together a room of 20 diverse leaders, helping them develop strong public voices. We’ve learned, sometimes the hard way, how important it is to support each other, to bolster our own unique strengths while watching out for each others’ inevitable blind spots.
