Summary of Eve Rodsky's Fair Play

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Get the Summary of Eve Rodsky's Fair Play in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It started with the Sh*t I Do List. Tired of being the "shefault" parent responsible for all aspects of her busy household, Eve Rodsky counted up all the unpaid, invisible work she was doing for her family -- and then sent that list to her husband, asking for things to change. His response was... underwhelming. Rodsky realized that simply identifying the issue of unequal labor on the home front wasn't enough: She needed a solution to this universal problem. Her sanity, identity, career, and marriage depended on it.

The result is Fair Play: a time- and anxiety-saving system that offers couples a completely new way to divvy up chores and responsibilities. Rodsky interviewed more than five hundred men and women from all walks of life to figure out what the invisible work in a family actually entails and how to get it all done efficiently. With four easy-to-follow rules, 100 household tasks, and a series of conversation starters for you and your partner, Fair Play helps you prioritize what's important to your family and who should take the lead on every chore from laundry to homework to dinner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669342809

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author used to work at a job she enjoyed, but then she had children and her life changed dramatically. She no longer has time to make her family smoothies, and she feels guilty about it.

#2

The author grew up in a one-parent home with her mother, who had to work constantly to support them. The author was determined to build and sustain a 50/50 partnership one day. She met her future husband while studying law, and the two did a cross-country courtship for a year. On their wedding anniversary, she presented him with The Best of 2003, every single email they’d written to each other since they first met.

#3

The author and her husband were in their twenties and just married when they moved to New York City. They lived in a cramped apartment near the Midtown tunnel, and the author helped her husband with his business.

#4

After having their firstborn, many mothers enter a deep depression that they can’t seem to climb out of.

#5

When you free up time spent in an office, you quickly fill it by doing more at home, including non-family-related tasks. Domestic life doesn’t stop when you have children.

#6

The author began collecting articles about the invisible work women do, and the burden of which they are typically the only ones to benefit.

#7

The author realized that what was really holding her back from getting more sleep was her husband, who was not participating in household chores and childcare duties.

#8

The author and her friends were once a group of women who met to discuss their husbands’ poor parenting skills. They would meet and text back and forth about the smallest of things, like what time lunch should be made, which eventually led them to skip lunch altogether.

#9

If you want your partner to take responsibility for the things you do, make sure they know what you’re doing. If you want them to value what you do, make sure they see it.

#10

The author began tallying all of the little things she did around the house that her husband never noticed, and it turned out to be a long list. The author wanted to show this list to her husband to show him just how much work she did around the house.

#11

A partnership with your husband is what is needed to stop the cycle of the female nagging and the

Reviews for Summary of Eve Rodsky's Fair Play

[Hayley Chan · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Good enough if you don't have time to read the book