Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

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.

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.

You're always going to feel like you're catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.

In little more than a generation, feminism has obliterated roles. If you wonder why so many men choose not to get married, the answer lies in large part in the contemporary devaluation of the husband and of the father - of men as men, in other words.

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

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

We will never achieve equality in the workplace until we have more equality in the home. Our plans for an extra four weeks of parental leave specifically for fathers will help tackle the assumption that parenting is one of the 'girl jobs'.

If a female wants to do a man's job, no one will stop her from doing it, but women have duties to perform as mothers.

I grew up in an era where Dad worked, Mum looked after the family, and if I think of the qualities she brought to that - nurture and support are so valuable.

When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent.

As a partner in a firm full of women who work outside of the home as well as stay at home mothers, all with plenty of children, gender equality is not a talking point for me. It is an issue I live every day.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

The working mothers of America deserve medals.

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

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

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.