Women with children do more work – paid and at home – than their male partners. There’s research to back this up, but for now I’m going to call this The Problem.
That’s a very unattractive proposition. I could, however, be coaxed into something that resembled a 50:50 split. A genuine equal partnership. Co-parenting, equal parenting, shared parenting, sharing the load, fairenting (ok I made up that one). A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of.
I’m an anglo Australian woman living in Sydney. I have a well-paid white collar job and a husband who believes in gender equality.
This should not be hard.
And yet when I look at friends and peers, I see The Problem. So it’s not going to happen automatically.
Over the past decade there’s been a lot of work on understanding The Problem. I’m interested in solutions.
Join me as I figure out what works in theory, what works for others, and what works for us.