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How working couples can best support each other | The Way We Work, a TED series

It’s possible to have a successful career AND a successful marriage. Professor and author Jennifer Petriglieri explains how you and your partner can make choices that work for your life together — without sacrificing your individual aspirations. The Way We Work is a TED original video series where leaders and thinkers offer practical wisdom and…

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It’s possible to have a successful career AND a successful marriage. Professor and author Jennifer Petriglieri explains how you and your partner can make choices that work for your life together — without sacrificing your individual aspirations.

The Way We Work is a TED original video series where leaders and thinkers offer practical wisdom and insight into how we can adapt and thrive amid changing workplace conventions. (Made possible with the support of Dropbox)

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  1. Woke Gentleman

    November 28, 2020 at 10:45 am

    Step 1, unionize.

    Step 2, get the CEO, make ultimatum

    Step 3, take over the company. Make it into worker co-op

  2. Miguel Ángel

    November 28, 2020 at 11:27 am

    Hello People, I need help with a simple task, I need a native English speaker for help with a simple task.
    I need to transcript 5 audio of 5 seconds per audio, pls anybody help me????????????

  3. Mriganka Sarma

    November 28, 2020 at 11:43 am

    @

  4. Olesya Valger

    November 28, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    Well, thanks for the advice. Most of the time it would mean that women will struggle to find a partner who is ready to make equal sacrifices, because so few men are ready to put their career on hold to bring up a child. At least 50 % of men should be ready to do it to keep the world scales balanced.
    But then, should the men who do not want to spend their time on bringing up a child even reproduce?

    • victor noagbodji

      November 28, 2020 at 5:01 pm

      ???? ???? wait what? where are you getting all these from. it is so far from any truth here…

    • Jennifer Coopman

      November 29, 2020 at 2:25 am

      Olesya, I’ve been thinking about this subject a lot lately and your comment intrigued me. Is what you are saying is that men who aren’t going to be stay at home dads shouldn’t have kids? Then, that would go for women, too, right? If a woman has a job outside the home, she shouldn’t reproduce?

      But then, if only stay at home parents should have kids, then how will they get money to live?

      Or did you mean that it’s ok for women to have children, even if they work outside the home, and it’s only the men who don’t want to be stay at home dads that shouldn’t have kids?

      Or did I misunderstand and the stay at home parent question was not even what your comment was referring to? Thank you!

    • Olesya Valger

      November 29, 2020 at 9:14 am

      @Jennifer Coopman yes, I am speaking about stay at home parents, but none of the above variants apply, I think. I mean that if both the partners are ready to sacrifice some time from their successful career and stay at home in turn, or together, and both of them are ready to take that responsibility – this is the situation when logical conversations about personal trajectories can happen. If one of the partners is not ready to make this kind of sacrifice and expects the other partner to fully embrace all the responsibility – there is no space for negotiations here, and the advice in the video is pretty much reduced to ‘do not have children with the person who is not going to consider the option of staying at home at all.”

    • Jennifer Coopman

      November 29, 2020 at 4:10 pm

      @Olesya Valger I get you now, thank you. To avoid that predicament, a woman would have to suss out the man’s willingness to quit or reduce hours while still in the dating period. A man might have to rethink his masculinity if he wants to be in a relationship with a woman who asks him that question.

  5. Bhattu Jaan

    November 28, 2020 at 1:29 pm

    work together with couple is lessen the indoors & outdoors responsibility .

  6. Hasan Mahmud 0101

    November 28, 2020 at 1:35 pm

    ????????????

  7. Astres

    November 28, 2020 at 1:38 pm

    Cars = pure evil, my first gf die in accident, family business ruined in small crash, partner mother die just from heart attack, and now bride buy one, we don’t speak for a ear now. Ban coffins on weeks. -_-

  8. A R

    November 28, 2020 at 2:13 pm

    Simple — Men should only marry women who are fine with her man leading their relationship. Men should stay away from feminist types. Equality is good in life, but bad in a marriage.

  9. Hadeel قوهالي

    November 28, 2020 at 2:35 pm

    Channels translated into Arabic

  10. Hadeel قوهالي

    November 28, 2020 at 2:35 pm

    Channels translated into Arabic please????????????????????????????????

  11. Florian Hansch

    November 28, 2020 at 2:45 pm

    Regardless of how you word it, if you put your needs before the needs of that partnership it ceases to be one. Balance however is defined by the situation, my wife who is very successful in her corporate profession will often proclaim she “wears the pants” in our relationship, I dont challenge this point because our goals are alligned and ultimately I know in a time of crisis, when a big decision has to be made, she will turn to me and say “darling, what do you want to do?”

  12. ABD ELKRIM

    November 28, 2020 at 3:38 pm

    Why is there no translation in Arabic?????????????????????
    ?????????????????????????????????

  13. Harshraj Rathore

    November 28, 2020 at 3:43 pm

    Great helpful suggestions. Thanks. I wonder if there’s a book from you for some couple activities like these.

  14. HOW TO

    November 28, 2020 at 4:06 pm

    Learn something from me

  15. Mega Mijit

    November 28, 2020 at 4:28 pm

    thats a man.

    • 7duke77

      November 30, 2020 at 8:58 pm

      I was thinking the same thing…wtf?

    • Mega Mijit

      November 30, 2020 at 9:23 pm

      @7duke77 because it is. its clearly a man.

  16. Sharp Design

    November 28, 2020 at 4:32 pm

    Quick thank you to Erin Gregory and Camille Martinez who I just noticed took care of transcribe/captions. 0:00

  17. Lộc Phước

    November 28, 2020 at 4:50 pm

    So useful and easy to remember

  18. Jman

    November 28, 2020 at 5:01 pm

    Ted is an anti human organization. Run by globalist elite who are also eugenist.

    • BabeImBroke Mercy

      November 28, 2020 at 5:30 pm

      Send a link

  19. Tobias Kurjata

    November 28, 2020 at 5:26 pm

    Be careful of using the written recond as a tool for blaming. It’s an easy trap to miss.

  20. Semper Fortis

    November 28, 2020 at 5:38 pm

    If a couple doesn’t make a good team, they shouldn’t be a couple; plain and simple. Otherwise the familiarity that breeds contempt will only have resentment added to the mix.

    ….Cannabis and mushrooms help.

  21. Sean Ogle

    November 28, 2020 at 6:11 pm

    Is this only a heterosexual problem? That’s all the video showed.

  22. noor al zahraa

    November 29, 2020 at 3:37 am

    لا توجد ترجمه عربيه مره أخرى؟????

  23. Cutecaitlinfilms

    November 29, 2020 at 6:50 am

    ❤️❤️❤️????????????????

  24. manfred schmalbach

    November 29, 2020 at 5:04 pm

    She wants a career? NMFP, is it? I want a career? NHFP, is it? She wants children? OK, she can decide to have children.
    She wants children AND a career? Bye bye, not my children anyway, not in this life.

  25. luke kuehn

    November 30, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    As part of a millenial working couple gotta say good advice from TED. Kinda surprising coming from them honestly.

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