Check out this article on a study of stay at home dads. Here's the kicker:
"Using other data sources, the Pew Center study also found that stay-at-home fathers help out more in housework and child care than do working fathers. They average about 18 hours per week in doing housework and 11 hours in taking care of the kids, the highest levels of all fathers. Their housework and child care hours are longer than their partners’, although the difference is not big. Stay-at-home fathers spend about four hours more per week than their working partners in housework, and about two hours more per week in child care. Yet their leisure time is nearly double that of their partners (43 hours per week vs. 23 hours).
"In contrast, when moms stay at home and dads work for pay, the wives average about 26 hours per week in housework and about 20 hours in child care, more than three times as much as what their working partners put into these activities. Stay-at-home mothers have more leisure time than their partners who work for pay, but only by less than four hours per week."
In short, whether or not the men are earning money, they feel entitled to enjoy all the leisure time they want while the women work their tails off at home and/or at the office. Infuriating. How do I break this cycle - with my husband and with my son?
Because dudes remain a privileged class, despite what Hanna Roisin would say. But the End of Men is nigh.....
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