Granted, these fathers did perform more domestic work than their own fathers: Between 1965 and 2003, men’s portion of unpaid family work rose from under 20 percent to nearly 30 percent.3 But since 2003, that figure has remained stubbornly in place. Time-use studies by the Bureau of Labor Statistics find that women who work for pay outside the home still shoulder 65 percent of childcare responsibilities.4 Fathers, in other words, have never even approached performing an equal amount of household labor.
