Looking For Equality Within A Marriage
“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave – Martin Luther”

Pew Research Center recently conducted an analysis of each parent’s total workload, comprising paid work, child care and housework. It found that in dual-income households, fathers put in, on average, 58 hours a week, compared with 59 hours for mothers but the distribution between paid work, housework and childcare was quite different. In households where the father is the sole breadwinner, his total workload exceeded that of his partner by only 11 hours (57 vs. 46 hours per week) but in households where the mother is the sole breadwinner, her total workload exceeded that of her partner by about 25 hours (58 vs. 33 hours per week).
Is it any wonder that working mothers often perceive inequalities within their own marriages? …Read more
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