When moms out-earn their husbands, they gain more housework, study says

enormous difficulties if they hoped to combine a career with marriage.

sont les femmes qui décrivent que leur sens des priorités se modifie quand elles ont un enfant. Ce qui leur paraissait primordial auparavant, comme le fait de passer de longues heures au bureau, se met à passer au second plan et chacune ajuste la réalité quotidienne selon ses possibilités, souvent au détriment de son propre intérêt. Souvent, dès qu

in workplaces that place top value on “overwork,” women are in fact more likely to be evaluated poorly and less likely to receive opportunities for promotions.

more recent study, published in 2006 by the National Bureau of Economic Research, also found that the hours housewives devoted to domestic work remained steady, at between 51 and 56 a week, in every decade from the 1910s through the 1960s.

The wife often breaks free of this stalemate first when the couple has children because she shifts her priorities to the happiness of her children.