But for many, life at home is a different story, says Ester Schaler Buchholz, PhD, professor of applied psychology in New York University's Psychoeducational Center. Women do most of the child care, make most of the sacrifices in their careers. If so, talk about it. Married women constitute the most depressed segment of the population. They have higher rates of depression than single women, single men, and married men.
Many women stay in unhappy marriages at great personal cost.
And certainly there are lots of parents who are introducing boys to domestic things like cooking. But cultural stereotypes are very entrapping for some people. People often slip back into old patterns and not consciously be aware of it. Male dominance in relationships is a difficult beast to tame, says Buchholz. Biology, too, plays a role.