--- title: The My Five Wives Family Says They're Feminists description: Apparently you can have relationship equality with five different people at once canonical: https://time.com/18378/this-polygamous-family-says-theyre-feminists/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-10T15:45:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:54:59.128Z og:title: This polygamous family says they're feminists og:description: Apparently you can have relationship equality with five different people at once og:url: https://time.com/18378/this-polygamous-family-says-theyre-feminists/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This polygamous family says they're feminists twitter:description: Apparently you can have relationship equality with five different people at once twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Polygamous Family Says They're Feminists by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 10, 2014 3:45 PM UTC by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Mar 10, 2014 3:45 PM UTC The stars of an upcoming reality show _My Five Wives_, says they identify as feminist. How that is possible is questionable, considering the Williams family is made up of 24 children, five wives, and one husband–Brady. The women get Brady to themselves every fifth night, and must share him with the other women for the rest of the week. If Brady is busy that night studying, they go to bed alone. And yet, when [the Atlantic asked](http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/03/the-real-polygamous-feminist-wives-of-salt-lake-city/284307/) the Williams parents who considers themselves “feminist,” all six spouses raised their hands. Brady refuses to be called the “head of the household,” and says he believes in relationship equality for all five of his marriages. Brady is a construction manager and philosophy major currently taking a feminist theory class. The family’s reality show will debut on TLC this Sunday. You can read the rest of the family’s profile in the Atlantic, [here](http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/03/the-real-polygamous-feminist-wives-of-salt-lake-city/284307/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/18378/this-polygamous-family-says-theyre-feminists/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/18378/this-polygamous-family-says-theyre-feminists/"},"headline":"This Polygamous Family Says They're Feminists","datePublished":"2014-03-10T15:45:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:54:59.128Z","description":"Apparently you can have relationship equality with five different people at once","url":"https://time.com/18378/this-polygamous-family-says-theyre-feminists/","keywords":["Living","feminism"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/18378/this-polygamous-family-says-theyre-feminists/","name":"This Polygamous Family Says They're Feminists"}}]}] ```