New York Times: Parenthood Is Still Uneven, but an Hour a Day Could Help

Part of what is holding women back from leadership in ballet is a challenge for women in every field: parenting.

Maya Salam explores this topic in her latest ‘In Her Words’ for The New York Times below:

The invisible, unpaid work that women are often expected to shoulder — like raising children and managing households — is an “urgent matter” of gender justice, according to a new report on modern fatherhood.

The report, The State of the World’s Fathers, which examines data from over two dozen countries and information from nearly 12,000 people, was released this week by Promundo, a global advocacy group focused on gender-equality issues, and MenCare, a campaign focused on men’s family involvement.

Its major finding: that women still spend way more time than men, up to 10 times as much, on unpaid tasks like child care and senior care, as well as on volunteer work and domestic chores.

Read the full article in The New York Times.