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Are Canadian Dads Pulling Their Weight at Home?
Wednesday Jan 23, 2008
California sociologist Arlie Hochschild, once coined the phrase The Second Shift to describe the extra load of unpaid work women in dual career households were doing at home. Since then experts and commentators have scrutinized and debated whether or not fathers are doing their share of caring for children, cooking, cleaning and other domestic work. Canadian journalist John Hoffman reports on the latest numbers from Canada's General Social Survey, showing that fathers really are closing the domestic gap. Click here to read the story.
