“Dads who don a pinny and muck in with the housework are less likely to get divorced than those who leave it to the missus.” That’s the story in the Mirror today, also in Times, Telegraph, Independent.
This research at the London School of Economics confirms the same findings in USA and Scandinavia.
The issue is not whether mothers work, it is how fathers adapt to this by changing the way they operate too. And the reality is that men’s work is not changing nearly enough. The irony is that all the emphasis on helping mothers, without focusing on fathers, has steadily made things worse, particularly giving mothers 39 weeks leave and fathers only 2 weeks.
