Recent Pew research on two-income families showed that fathers said they shared household work and child care equally.22 Mothers disagreed, and their “perceptions are supported by plentiful research,” according to the New York Times.23 According to another report, after a baby was born, women’s total time working—including paid work, child care, and housework—went up twenty-one hours a week; men’s climbed twelve and a half.
