The Hidden Labor Gap In Modern Families | Locked Out Of Work: Women, Criminal Records & The Will To Rebuild
Viewpoints
Monday, December 29, 2025 - 24 minutes
The Hidden Labor Gap In Modern Families
- Even as dual-income households become more of the norm across America, women often still shoulder more of the work at home. We explore why this imbalance persists and what real equity moving forward could look like.
Host: Gary Price
Producer: Amirah Zaveri
Guest: Kate Mangino, gender expert, author of Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home.
Locked Out Of Work: Women, Criminal Records & The Will To Rebuild
- A criminal record can follow someone for years, or even decades, by chronically limiting job options and career paths at every turn. As Illinois moves forward with a new Clean Slate law, we examine how these barriers shape lives nationwide, disproportionately affect formerly incarcerated women and what record-clearing policies could change for the tens of millions of Americans stuck in limbo.
Host: Marty Peterson
Producer: Amirah Zaveri
Guests: Chanell Burnette, writer, advocate, former prisoner; Marlon Chamberlain, founder, executive director, Illinois Coalition to End Permanent Punishments, former prisoner; Colette Payne, director, Reclamation Project, Women’s Justice Institute, former prisoner.
Viewpoints Explained: A Global Threat That’s Slowly Fading
- We focus on highlighting more positive news, we cover how one global problem is moving in the right direction and how this positive change didn’t happen by accident but required global cooperation.
Host: Ebony McMorris.
Producer: Amirah Zaveri
Culture Crash: Guillermo Del Toro Finally Meets “Frankenstein”
- Acclaimed Mexican filmmaker and director Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited “Frankenstein” arrives at last. We review the new film now streaming on Netflix.
Host: Evan Rook
Producer: Evan Rook
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