Indeed, in the former Soviet Union, most mothers had jobs and yet, they didn’t expect their husbands to take much responsibility for housework and childcare. But in the United States and Europe, women’s mass entry into the labor force was accompanied by a strong, vocal feminist movement. And that women’s movement wasted no time in documenting the housework and childcare gap. One of the most popular articles in the 1960′s Women’s Liberation Movement was Pat Mainardi’s ‘The Sexual Politics of Housework’.

Without the Pat Mainardi’s of the world, American fathers today would have never discovered the joys and responsibilities of hands-on homemaking and parenting. So please, say thank you to the feminist movement.