Clocking Out of the Second Shift
The official statistics show that gender gaps in the division of household labor have closed significantly over time. Why are so many women still so frustrated?
Illustration by Oleg Buyevsky
There now exists a small cottage industry designed to expose a vast, seemingly intractable form of gender inequality embedded, we’re told, in nearly every heterosexual relationship: the unequal division of household labor. Women, according to author and entrepreneur Eve Rodsky, are still “shouldering 2/3 or more of the unpaid domestic work and childcare for their […]
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