In this special Father's Day episode we sit down with Sabrina's father, David Merage. A successful businessman, immigrant, and philanthropist, David reflects on his roots in a patriarchal society and the strong women whom he looked up to as a child. We discuss his duality as an Iranian Jew living in America, a successful entrepreneur whose family had meager means, and a conservative businessman with progressive social values. We press him to explain his perspective on women's rights, why he's willing to leverage his resources for policy change around early childcare, and why he believes that women should have paid maternity leave but why he's not quite comfortable calling himself a feminist.

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