Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey

2 months ago | newamerica.org | Haley Swenson |Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey

Have you ever been asked to help a child with math homework, and then immediately panicked when you looked at the page? You aren’t alone. Today, homework help, like most childcare activities, falls more on women’s shoulders than on men’s. The latest data from the American Time Use Survey suggests women in households with children under 18 spend about four times as much of their day helping kids with homework than do men. But it does not need to be this way.