Leah Ruppanner is a no-nonsense Sociologist from the University of Melbourne on a mission to dispel society’s biggest and most divisive gender myths. In MissPerceived, Leah will tackle pervasive questions and draw upon decades of academic research and evidence to debunk the gender myths that benefit no one - showing that women aren’t better than men at seeing mess or multitasking, and that men aren’t bumbling caregivers who can’t change a diaper or find the keys. MissPerceived will show how as a society we use these myths to explain gender inequality and maintain the status quo. Leah doesn’t shy away from tough topics and touches on all those messy conversations about life including sex, relationships, work, parenting, and self-help. MissPerceived showcases how we got here, where we need to go next, and how to get there.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
MissPerceived
Claim This Podcastby Audiocrafty
Podcast Authority
Beta
Podcast Overview
Leah Ruppanner is a no-nonsense Sociologist from the University of Melbourne on a mission to dispel society’s biggest and most divisive gender myths. In MissPerceived, Leah will tackle pervasive questions and draw upon decades of academic research and evidence to debunk the gender myths that benefit no one - showing that women aren’t better than men at seeing mess or multitasking, and that men aren’t bumbling caregivers who can’t change a diaper or find the keys. MissPerceived will show how as a society we use these myths to explain gender inequality and maintain the status quo. Leah doesn’t shy away from tough topics and touches on all those messy conversations about life including sex, relationships, work, parenting, and self-help. MissPerceived showcases how we got here, where we need to go next, and how to get there.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
Language
🇺🇲
Publishing Since
5/2/2024
Unlock The Full Podcast Authority Score Report
See how your podcast performs across key metrics
Podcast Authority
BetaRecommendations available
Unlock the full report to see detailed tips
Recommendations available
Unlock the full report to see detailed tips
Unlock comprehensive insights including:
- • YouTube presence analysis
- • Social media reach metrics
- • RSS compliance scoring
- • Podcast 2.0 features
- • Technical standards
Detailed Analytics
- Complete breakdown of all 19 authority metrics
- Personalized recommendations for each metric
- Industry benchmarks and comparisons
- Technical RSS feed analysis and compliance scoring
Growth Strategies
- Step-by-step action plans for improvement
- Quick wins to boost your score immediately
- Pro tips from successful podcasters
See how your show performs across every key metric
High authority scores make your podcast more attractive to industry leaders and influencers who want to appear on credible shows.
Sponsors look for podcasts with proven authority and engagement. Your score demonstrates your podcast's value to potential partners.
Understanding your strengths and weaknesses helps you make data-driven decisions to expand your listener base effectively.
4 verified contact emails on file for MissPerceived
Pitch yourself as a guest, propose sponsorships, or reach out directly to the host.
Recent Episodes
August 18, 2026
Return-to-Office Is Pushing Women Out of Work
<p>When employers demand that people return to the office full-time, who pays the biggest price?</p><p>In this episode of MissPerceived, Professor Leah Ruppanner responds to a listener whose partner is being called back into the office — and whose family is already feeling the consequences. Leah explores what the research says about remote and flexible work, why it became essential for so many mothers’ employment during the pandemic, and why return-to-office mandates risk pushing women out of the workforce again.</p><p>But flexibility is not a simple fix. Leah unpacks the <strong>flexibility paradox</strong>: working from home can help women stay employed and manage caregiving, but it can also stretch the workday into early mornings, late nights, and an exhausting always-on cycle of paid work, parenting, housework, and guilt.</p><p>She also explains the unequal career trade-offs families make. Too often, women make career compromises “for the family,” while men are encouraged to accelerate their careers as breadwinners — even when both parents genuinely want more time with their children. The result is a gendered mental load, unequal long-term earnings, and a system that asks mothers to hold work and family together at once.</p><p><strong>Chapters:</strong></p><p>00:00 A listener asks: What happens when a partner is called back to the office?</p><p>01:30 Why return-to-office mandates can hurt women’s careers</p><p>02:20 Before COVID, men had greater access to remote and flexible work</p><p>03:00 The pandemic’s “exposure effect” — proving work could happen outside the office</p><p>04:39 How flexible work helped mothers remain employed</p><p>06:44 Why working from home is essential — and why it is not enough</p><p>07:30 The flexibility paradox: a resource that expands the workday</p><p>09:06 Remote work, maternal guilt, and never being able to clock out</p><p>10:00 The career trade-offs women make “for the family”</p><p>11:25 Why men and women often make different work decisions for the same family</p><p>13:44 Flexible work helps dads care more — without sacrificing their careers</p><p>14:30 Class differences in who can access flexibility and who faces job disruption</p><p>15:30 The gendered mental load of holding work and family together</p><p><strong>Research Mentioned:</strong></p><p>📘 For the Family: How Class, Gender, and the Family Shape Women’s Work by Sarah Damaske</p><p>📚 Research by Professor Heejung Chung on the “flexibility paradox”</p><p>📊 Research by Leah Ruppanner, Kristin Landevar, Katie Collins, William Scarborough, Lauren Ryan, and Brendan Churchill on flexible work, caregiving, and employment</p><p>📘 Drained: Reduce Your Mental Load to Do Less and Be More by Professor Leah Ruppanner</p><p><strong>Stay Connected with Leah:</strong></p><p>Instagram: @prof.leahruppanner</p><p>Instagram: @lightenlab</p><p>TikTok: @prof.leahruppanner</p><p>Website: https://www.leahruppanner.com</p><p>Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe now: /@missperceivedpodcast</p><p>Follow Leah: @prof.leahruppanner</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
August 11, 2026
You Can’t “Strengths-Based” Your Way Out of a Broken System
<p>What does a strengths-based approach actually mean — and when does it become another way of asking people to solve impossible problems alone?</p><p>In this episode of MissPerceived, Professor Leah Ruppanner responds to a listener’s thoughtful question about why her work focuses so much on structural barriers, inequality, and the systems that make life heavier. Leah explains the value of identifying your strengths, resources, resilience, and community support — but also why strength alone cannot fix unaffordable childcare, inaccessible healthcare, discrimination, or a broken labor market.</p><p>Through research on LGBTQIA+ families, the Mental Load Audit, and the sociological tension between <strong>structure and agency</strong>, Leah explores how we can use our existing strengths while still demanding collective solutions. You are powerful, resilient, and capable — but you were never meant to carry structural problems by yourself.</p><p><strong>Chapters:</strong></p><p>00:00 A listener asks: Where is the strengths-based approach?</p><p>01:30 What “strengths-based” actually means</p><p>02:23 Strengths-based vs. deficit-based thinking</p><p>03:00 The Mental Load Audit as a practical strengths-based tool</p><p>04:46 LGBTQIA+ families, shared experience, and community as a resource</p><p>07:06 The problem with “just try harder”</p><p>08:00 Why individual resilience can’t solve structural inequality</p><p>09:19 Structure and agency: what is yours to carry — and what is not?</p><p>10:00 Asking for help, sharing the burden, and building coalitions</p><p>11:42 Why lived experience is valuable research and knowledge</p><p>12:30 How we change systems without carrying the whole world alone</p><p><strong>Resources Mentioned:</strong></p><p>📘 Drained: Reduce Your Mental Load to Do Less and Be More</p><p>🧠 Free Mental Load Assessment — Lighten Lab</p><p>📱 Follow along on Instagram for research insights and mental-load tools</p><p><strong>Stay Connected with Leah:</strong></p><p>Instagram: @prof.leahruppanner</p><p>Instagram: @lightenlab</p><p>TikTok: @prof.leahruppanner</p><p>Website: https://www.leahruppanner.com</p><p>Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe now: /@missperceivedpodcast</p><p><strong>About MissPerceived:</strong></p><p>MissPerceived is a weekly podcast hosted by Professor Leah Ruppanner, sociologist and author of Drained. Each week, Leah explores the gender myths and social systems shaping our lives — from mental load and caregiving to work, relationships, and identity. No PhD required. Just come hang out.</p><p>#MissPerceived #MentalLoad #StrengthsBasedApproach #Sociology #Drained #ProfLeahRuppanner #SocialChange</p><p>Follow Leah: @prof.leahruppanner</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
August 4, 2026
Why Women Use AI Less at Work (And Why That Really Matters)
<p>Are you using AI at work — or quietly avoiding it? In this episode of MissPerceived, Leah digs into new research showing that women are <strong>about 25% less likely</strong> than men to adopt generative AI tools in their jobs. She explains what that means for careers, organizations, and the “brain” of AI itself, and why low female adoption could make AI less accurate for women’s experiences worldwide.</p><p>Leah walks through findings from Harvard Business School on global gender gaps in AI use, explores how unsupervised learning means our data is literally training the AI brain, and shows what happens when most of that data comes from men and from rich, English‑speaking countries. She also unpacks the mental load behind women’s hesitation: environmental worries, ethics, stereotypes that say women who use AI are “less competent,” and the pressure to prove your worth without help. Finally, she shares her own experience using AI, why it sometimes feels like “beautiful nonsense,” and asks what kind of future of work we actually want.</p><p><strong>Chapters:</strong></p><p>00:00 Introduction — are you using AI at work?</p><p>01:30 Future of Work Lab: automation vs. AI (what’s the difference?)</p><p>02:17 Harvard Business School findings: women 25% less likely to use AI tools</p><p>04:36 How your data trains the AI brain — and what happens when women are missing</p><p>06:56 Global gaps: rich countries, English speakers, and who AI really “sees”</p><p>07:30 Career consequences when women don’t adopt AI at the same rate</p><p>08:00 Organizational losses when only some workers use AI</p><p>08:50 Environmental and ethical worries as part of women’s mental load</p><p>09:16 Code for Good Now study: women seen as less competent when they use AI</p><p>11:45 Occupational sorting: why some jobs see more AI than others</p><p>12:30 Leah’s own experience: when AI makes her brain “lazy”</p><p>13:51 Generational differences: Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha and tech skepticism</p><p>14:30 What kind of future of work do we actually want — and who gets to shape it?</p><p>Follow Leah: @prof.leahruppanner</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
134 total episodes available
Recent guests on MissPerceived
Guests from recent episodes — sign up to see every guest that has ever appeared on this show.
Leah Ruppanner
Guest
Courtney Lund O’Neill
Guest
Similar Podcasts
Discover related shows you might enjoy
Wild with Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson
ZOE Science & Nutrition
ZOE
What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood | Parenting Tips From Funny Moms
Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
DOAC
Dare to Lead with Brené Brown
Vox Media Podcast Network
Ask Lisa: The Psychology of Parenting
Dr. Lisa Damour/Reena Ninan
Wellness While Walking
Carolyn Cohen
All In The Mind
ABC Australia
ADHD Experts Podcast
ADDitude
You Are Not Broken
Kelly Casperson, MD
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Mel Robbins
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel
Esther Perel Global Media
The Weeds
Vox
The Best People with Nicolle Wallace
MS NOW, Nicolle Wallace
Deep-dive analytics for MissPerceived
Frequently asked questions
Have a different question and can't find the answer you're looking for? Reach out to our support team by sending us an email and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.
- What is MissPerceived?
- How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
- Where can I listen to this podcast?
This podcast is available on 8 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.
- Does this podcast accept guests?
Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.
Legal Disclaimer
Pod Engine is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected with any of the podcasts displayed on this platform. We operate independently as a podcast discovery and analytics service.
All podcast artwork, thumbnails, and content displayed on this page are the property of their respective owners and are protected by applicable copyright laws. This includes, but is not limited to, podcast cover art, episode artwork, show descriptions, episode titles, transcripts, audio snippets, and any other content originating from the podcast creators or their licensors.
We display this content under fair use principles and/or implied license for the purpose of podcast discovery, information, and commentary. We make no claim of ownership over any podcast content, artwork, or related materials shown on this platform. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
While we strive to ensure all content usage is properly authorized, if you are a rights holder and believe your content is being used inappropriately or without proper authorization, please contact us immediately at hey@podengine.ai for prompt review and appropriate action, which may include content removal or proper attribution.
By accessing and using this platform, you acknowledge and agree to respect all applicable copyright laws and intellectual property rights of content owners. Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution, or commercial use of the content displayed on this platform is strictly prohibited.