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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.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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

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