According to the Pew Research Center, in 2016, fathers reported spending eight hours a week on child care. That’s more than three times what fathers spent with their children in 1965. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, working women with children under the age of six still spend an average of 1.1 hours of each workday physically taking care of them. Men? Twenty-six minutes.20 According to Pew, men today do ten hours a week of housework, up from four. Not enough to close the gap.
