'Different generations, same family.' Join writer and historian Dr Eliza Filby as she sits down with relatives from different generations to explore life through a generational lens, discussing how things have changed from jobs to dating, music to money, asking how different are we really? Teasing out quirky family traditions and hilarious anecdotes, It's All Relative is like eavesdropping on a Sunday family roast.
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Women are earning more than men in more relationships. So why does being the breadwinner still feel like a trap?Female breadwinners, women earning more than their husbands, the mental load, mankeeping, gender roles and the economics of marriage are changing relationships across Britain and beyond. Dual-income households have become the norm, fathers are doing more domestic work, and women have achieved extraordinary financial independence. Yet the transition is proving much harder than many of us expected, particularly once children arrive.We daughters of feminists were taught to compete with men. But nobody really taught us what happens when we start winning.I grew up in the 1980s with a breadwinner mother and a stay-at-home father. My dad was incredibly proud of my mother's success. He celebrated her achievements publicly, and they seemed to make this rather unconventional arrangement work beautifully.So when I found myself in exactly the same position, why did I struggle so much?
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5 Oct 2026
Is Being Childfree Really an Economic Advantage? | The Hidden Economics of Being Childfree
We’ve spent years talking about the motherhood penalty. It’s time we talked about the eldercare penalty.The number of childfree women and women without children is rising, raising some fascinating questions about money, pensions, eldercare, inheritance, retirement and the motherhood penalty. At first glance, women without children appear to have a significant financial advantage: no career break for motherhood, higher pension wealth and greater economic independence. But follow that story into midlife and old age and the picture becomes much more complicated.
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23 Sept 2026
Should We Retire With Our Friends? How Older Women Are Redefining Retirement
Have I saved enough for retirement? Perhaps we should also be asking: who do I want to spend retirement with?We talk endlessly about retirement planning, pensions, financial security, ageing and longevity. But there's another form of retirement planning we rarely discuss: friendship. As Millennials and Gen X think about later life, female friendship, co-housing, communal living and the loneliness epidemic are becoming part of the conversation. And for women in particular who live longer and are more likely to live alone in older age, perhaps we need to start investing in our friendships with the same seriousness that we invest in our pensions.I started thinking about this because of my mother.She's in her 80s and lives alone in South London.But she isn't lonely.Her spare room resembles a left-luggage department because it's permanently filled with the suitcases of friends and family coming to stay. I recently walked in on her, her sister and one of her closest friends drinking port and cackling like teenagers.Watching them, I realised something.My mother has created the 1970s feminist dream of the female commune almost by accident.And she's reaping the rewards of 50, 60, even 70 years invested in friendship.
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