Work And Life With Stew Friedman

Amy Westervelt is the author of Forget Having it All: How America Messed up Motherhood and How to Fix It; the founder of the Critical Frequency podcast network, the host of the podcast, Drilled; and an award-winning print and audio journalist. She contributes often to The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and many other outlets.  For her pioneering and fearless journalism on environmental and gender issues, she’s won an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Folio Award, a Rachel Carson Award. As the head of Critical Frequency, she has executive produced more than a dozen podcasts, including her own show Drilled -- the first ever true-crime style podcast to examine the creation of climate denial. In this episode Stew and Amy talk about the historical roots of the conditions that have made life difficult for mothers in America, particularly how the nuclear family evolved and the impact that social structure has on mothers and fathers today.   Amy describes the central challenges we