Episode 49: Is the Husband Going to Be a Problem? with Dr. Caroline Bicks

Professor Caroline Bicks discusses how her wedding ring became an issue in a job interview. She wrote about the dilemma in her NY Times Modern Love article, “Is The Husband Going to Be a Problem.”  There's a name for it in academia - the “two-body problem”  as our guest explains. Dr. Bicks is the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature at the University of Maine. She is also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English. She specializes in Shakespeare, gender studies, and the history of science. She is the author of Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World: Rethinking Female Adolescence (Cambridge University Press, 2021); Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England (Ashgate, 2003); co-editor of The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610 (Palgrave, 2010). She also is the co-author of Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas. Episode originally aired live on WVOX-AM on December 22,  2022. Show notes available at thebalancedilemma.com