The reason you should be skeptical of these studies is it’s not like men have more hours of the day, and comparing coupled men and women and coupled parents we know that men have virtually sleep+leisure time… so there’s gotta be work not classified as such.
https://twitter.com/danielcarlson_1/status/1420144216966008832
The exact issue varies. Sometimes what’s happening is men’s contribution to yard work is not counted as house work. Sometimes commuting isn’t counted. Sometimes there are no demographic controls so it’s just prevalence of single parents driving the result.
But the reality is that in apples to apples comparisons men and women have extremely small differences in their “total work commitments.” And the higher prevalence of single moms than single dads is not ONLY about deadbeat dads, but also…
… about women having a much better win rate in custody fights, and in a nontrivial number of cases (maybe at least 1%, no more than 9%, of births; much higher among just unpartnered!) women not even informing fathers a child is born!
Deadbeat dads are obviously an issue, but it’s obviously also true a lot of moms actively prevent nonresident fathers from interacting with their kids.
That’s why I dislike dumping single parents into the calculation: it’s a complicated issue how to think about their time use!
That’s why I dislike dumping single parents into the calculation: it’s a complicated issue how to think about their time use!
But for coresidential partners, we can see a clear test. And for those partners, the total time bill of work is pretty similar on average.
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