ESL Podcast 937 – Being a Stay-at-Home Dad

 　　Gladys: Hi, Dan. I’m surprised to see you here at the supermarket in the middle of the day.

　　Dan: Why?

　　Gladys: I thought you’d be working.

　　Dan: I am working. I’m a stay-at-home dad and I take care of the kids while my wife goes to work.

　　Gladys: Oh, did you get laid off from your job?

　　Dan: No, my wife works full-time¹ out of the house and I work full-time at home.

　　Gladys: You mean that your wife is the breadwinner and you’re a househusband?

　　Dan: If you want to put it that way, yes. I’m the caretaker for the kids during the day and I do the household chores.

　　Gladys: Oh, your wife must be a feminist².

　　Dan: No, my wife is just a modern woman with modern sensibilities.

　　Gladys: Well, I know that some families like to live radical³ lifestyles these days, changing up gender⁴ roles.

　　Dan: We don’t think of it as radical. In fact, it’s quite common nowadays.

　　Gladys: if you say so. Tell your wife I’d be happy to share my recipes with her when you go back to work and she’s a housewife again.

　　Dan: [sigh]

　　Script by Dr. Lucy Tse

1 full-time   

adj.满工作日的或工作周的，全时间的

参考例句：

• A full-time job may be too much for her.全天工作她恐怕吃不消。
• I don't know how she copes with looking after her family and doing a full-time job.既要照顾家庭又要全天工作，我不知道她是如何对付的。

2 feminist   

adj.主张男女平等的，女权主义的

参考例句：

• She followed the feminist movement.她支持女权运动。
• From then on,feminist studies on literature boomed.从那时起，男女平等受教育的现象开始迅速兴起。

3 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

4 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。