Part of the problem may be that women have moved into formerly “male” work without the reverse being true. “the jobs that many men used to do are gone or going fast,” Isabel Sawhill and Richard V. Reeves, both senior fellows at the Brookings Institution, wrote in the New York Times.111 “And families need two engaged parents to share the task of raising children. As painful as it may be, men need to adapt to what a modern economy and family life demand.”
