Jacinda Ardern Quotes

The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews.

I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.

Many men today can cook, or at least order takeout, and know where and how to hire domestic help, perhaps with refreshing clarity and less anxiety than ever-conflicted mothers.

In some ways, what I need is a wife.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

I take care of my kids every day. I drop them off at school and pick them up whenever my wife is too tired.

Moms are as versatile as dads.

I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent.

My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.

I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.

The more brutal it gets in the working world, the more appealing the prospect of having someone at home creating a sanctuary becomes. Increasingly couples, particularly with children, are making that tough choice, with one or other partner electing to embrace domestic duties while the other brings home the cash.

My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.

Behind every great man is his wife trying to keep him alive.

I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home.

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.