Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Men vs Women: Childcare

Technically this is about men vs women in households where the woman is the breadwinner.  But in spite of being the breadwinner, it appears that women still tend to do more of the childcare than the men in the family.  It would be interesting to compare this to families in which the male is the breadwinner, where we assume the women do much more of the childcare than the men.  How does it work in your family?  My mother always worked, as did my father.  And certainly my mother did all the childcare.  Although that was a different generation.  Certainly today men are more likely to be involved in the childcare than men of previous generations.  And it seems like you have a lot of dual-earning families these days, much more so than before.  It would be interesting to see how the percentages below would change if you threw in statistics about daycare-type situations.


Chart: Who does most of the childcare duties?

from:
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/09/breadwinner_wives_when_the_women_make_more_money_who_holds_the_power_.2.html

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