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Scenario

Why domestic partnership is often framed as women's responsibility with male assistance

My husband says he's 'helping' with housework and childcare and I can't figure out how to explain that it's not help when it's his house and his kids too.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The language of 'helping' with domestic duties reveals deeply embedded assumptions about whose domain the home truly belongs to.

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