"Talking about how hard we work is like drag brunch for straight guys"

Listen up, grindset alpha males and hard hustling girl bosses, have we got an episode for you! This week, Sarah and Garrett woke up at 4:00 AM, did 1000 crunches, closed some deals in the Tokyo office, plowed a field, and split a cord of wood, all to bring you the definitive podcast about ambition and gender.

Ok, that isn’t quite true. We only did 950 crunches. We did, however, have a real blast talking about men and women’s relationship to ambition at work. Does ambition look differently across gender lines? Is the provider myth killing men slowly? What can a vintage 1989 Outburst Jr. game teach us about gender socialization (and also types of cookies)? And oh my god, does the subject of VENOMOUS ANIMAL CONTACT enter the chat?! All this, and more, answered this week by America’s favorite breeders.

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Links:

* Sarah is correct: Women get lice more often because they’re emotionally intelligent (THE Ohio State University)

* Nit Pixies (the Bay Area’s premier choice for lice removal)

* Garrett is sorry that he couldn’t stop making “Did Women Ruin The Workplace?” jokes. (link to the world’s most cursed New York Times piece).

* A beautiful tribute to the city of Philadelphia (damp men yelling anti-Italian slurs at each other while complaining about how they’re in a bad mood).

* Shout out “It’s Your Move Games” in Oakland (for the record, Garrett’s favorite game store is Board Game Barrister, with excellent locations throughout the Milwaukee metro area).

* “Navigating the Gender Gap in Workplace Ambition” (InPower Coaching)

* The AskMen subreddit has some thoughts on masculine struggle and also raptors

* Gender Inequality, Work Hours, and the Future of Work (Institute for Women’s Policy Work)

* “Pressure to prove your manhood may shorten your life” (Greater Good Magazine)

* “The Pressure to provide is Making Men miserable”(Maria Cassano)

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