Aug 12, 2026 · 41 min · 10 segments
In this candid conversation, host Marianne Schnall speaks with activist, bestselling author, Girls Who Code founder, and Moms First CEO Reshma Saujani about her new documentary *No Country for…
Reshma SaujaniGuest
Marianne SchnallHost
know, motherhood in America is broken by design, right? It's we've been getting cons since the ink dried on the Constitution.
And I think oftentimes we think that these structural problems are our personal failures, like the fact that the school day ends at three thirty and work ends at six.
And so I wanted to do a documentary that really exposed the lies and like really shows women how we are being intentionally divided and distracted from making the structural changes like getting childcare, passing paid leave that would actually fix American motherhood once and for all.
Why do you think motherhood has become such a kind of cultural battleground? And what myths or misconceptions are you most hoping to kind of dismantle through this documentary?
You know, that's the thing we discovered from the documentary from the beginning of time, because here's the thing, like the worst thing you can call a mom is a bad mom.
So we create two camps, one that does and one that doesn't, and we fight each other.
And if we're so distracted by our own divisions, we are not looking at the problems that are being created that are making motherhood so hard.
We're not organized to fight against those structural failures because we're too busy judging each other.
We're too busy commenting, you know, on the comment section on Instagram, right, rather than marching for paid leave.
And so that is historically what has prevented us from, I think, passing these big structural changes that would support us and fix this once and for all.
know, motherhood in America is broken by design, right? It's we've been getting cons since the ink dried on the Constitution.
And I think oftentimes we think that these structural problems are our personal failures, like the fact that the school day ends at three thirty and work ends at six.
And so I wanted to do a documentary that really exposed the lies and like really shows women how we are being intentionally divided and distracted from making the structural changes like getting childcare, passing paid leave that would actually fix American motherhood once and for all.
Why do you think motherhood has become such a kind of cultural battleground? And what myths or misconceptions are you most hoping to kind of dismantle through this documentary?
You know, that's the thing we discovered from the documentary from the beginning of time, because here's the thing, like the worst thing you can call a mom is a bad mom.
So we create two camps, one that does and one that doesn't, and we fight each other.
And if we're so distracted by our own divisions, we are not looking at the problems that are being created that are making motherhood so hard.
We're not organized to fight against those structural failures because we're too busy judging each other.
We're too busy commenting, you know, on the comment section on Instagram, right, rather than marching for paid leave.
And so that is historically what has prevented us from, I think, passing these big structural changes that would support us and fix this once and for all.
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