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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Summer swim hasn't even started and I haven't received a request to volunteer.

Our team is 100% HOA/neighborhood kids and we don't have an issue with volunteers. We're required to volunteer 6 hours per kid. DH and I volunteered at one of the two meets a week. They made it easy for us to sign up online. We were all given name tag stickers and assigned lanes and roles. I think over half the volunteers are men, so I'm not sure why pp is saying it's all women. Even the other teams whose parents volunteer with us have a lot of men. I really like timing actually. It's exciting to be right up front and to see the swimmers. There's a lot of camaraderie with the other parents. [/quote]

Yea, I am not seeing the volunteering requirements being a mom lift either.  For swim, definitely not and that goes for other sports as well.  Even PTSA, that used to be all women seems to be 50/50 in who is helping and running events.  And, in quite a few houses it is only the dad volunteering for everything so I don't believe this mom shouldering the burden narrative.

I think that moms still shoulder the keep everyone's calendar and be on top of things burden, but that is about it.[/quote]

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