There seems to be two interlocking, and deeply depressing reasons: Men still don’t value domestic labor as labor, and men predominate our legislative bodies and the vast majority of our corporations. They don’t treat contemporary parenting—its cost, or the burnout that accompanies it—as a problem, let alone a crisis, because they cannot, or refuse to, empathize with it. Whether or not these legislators identify as conservatives, or “pro-woman,” or even “feminist” doesn’t matter; what matters is that it has not become a legislative or corporate priority.
