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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP’s scenario seems so common. It makes me think that there really is a reason why traditional gender roles have persisted. More women care about the details of parenting and running a household, and more men care about just doing their jobs and coming home to relax.

[b]But in cases where the woman also chooses to work, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the man chooses to do 50% of the house/kid stuff. [/b]So it all falls to her. Women demanded the right to earn a living, but men never demanded to do laundry and mop floors - that kind of got implicitly foisted on them. It’s a tough dynamic.

(And I’m a mom who works 60 hours a week, with a husband who does almost 50% of the parenting/stuff around the house, so I’m not in the majority I’m talking about).[/quote]

For most of us, work is not a "choice."  We support our families with our income.

A parent who lives in a house with children s/he brought into the world is responsible for that house and that child/ren regardless of the parent's gender.[/quote]

I’m the pp you quoted and I don’t disagree with you at all. I also work because I have to, and my DH pulls his weight.

I was just observing that the women’s movement to work did not include a men’s movement to do more dishes and diapers. So it isn’t surprising that they don’t want to do those things now. Saying “men should be different than they are” won’t change them. [/quote]

That’s a load of crap. There isn’t a contract that needs to be in place for half of the people in a relationship to know they need to step up and do more. Many men have  been raised to be selfish and people keep making excuses for it  saying its nature. That is a load of horse shite. Make men be accountable and maybe their children will know better than this bull crap. We’re making a lousy future for our daughters when we enable this. [/quote]

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