Some information in it may no longer be current. Anne is the wife of Lionel Carlson and the mother of Alice and Jayme she is best friends with Kate. Granted, she didn’t reneg on her work commitment (she’s a reporter), but she did go out of her way to make sure her partner’s desire not to be put out was accommodated, inconveniencing herself in the process. Jenny, who we really get to know in the second episode, is an IT specialist, and reluctant to return to work. Express. I don’t know for sure. Pioneering Stanford-based family researchers Phil and Carolyn Cowan believe that a significant reason for this inequality is that women do not feel entitled to putting their own needs, comforts or ambitions first, in relation to their male partners. (It should be noted that the series begins with its main moms all married—with Frankie in the lone same-sex relationship of the main crew—but ultimately does approach the subject of single parenting down the line.). They found that the men who performed 36% of their household’s labor reported the strongest feelings of fairness. Oddly, to me, Workin' Moms celebrates what was mocked with deft scorn by the Baroness Von Sketch series and the Canadian comedy Sunnyside. Me, I have every sympathy for working mothers. But at the very least, mothers are entitled to begin this conversation. And I think most women that are full-time working moms are hungry for a friendship like that. Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team. Captain Mark Phillips and his first wife Princess Anne, Mark and Anne divorced in 1992 after their marriage collapsed, Mark married his second wife Sandy in 1997, How Queen was ‘last person in the world to hear’ about father's death, Mike Tindall’s ‘shocking alternative plan’ for wedding to Zara exposed, Mark bonded with Anne, Sandy and Lauren through their shared love of horses, Princess Anne and Mark on their horses during their marriage, How Charles will have to make huge decision if Philip outlives Queen, How Mike Tindall was 'drowning sorrows on first meeting with Zara', Kate Middleton's mum Carole was ‘devastated’ by Prince Charles news, Kate and William ‘trying to reclaim privacy in Instagram culture', Royal fear: 'Ghastly object which made Charles shriek' exposed, How Diana’s stepmother made shock confession about Princess, Royal Family unmasked: How Queen signalled what she thinks of Kate, Prince William’s touching confession about royal attention exposed, Kate's career ‘if she hadn’t been royal’ exposed. Social psychologists have a name for a similar, and connected, phenomenon: system justification.