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How competence assumptions perpetuate unequal domestic labor

My husband and I both work full-time but I still do ninety percent of the housework and childcare, and when I bring it up he says I'm better at it than he is.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attribution of natural ability to socially assigned roles allows inequitable arrangements to persist while appearing voluntary and logical.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fairness — what every civilization concluded?”

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