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Deja Vu: The “retro wife,” 10 years later

By Amy S. Choi | Published: March 22, 2013
TweetNew York Magazine’s recent cover story “The Retro Wife” has raised hackles here, there, and everywhere. At Feministing, we shared the smart thoughts of Shannon Drury of The Radical Housewife yesterday. But this is hardly the first time a prominent woman writer has tackled the “opt out” subject. A decade ago, Lisa Belkin, now of the [...]
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Chart of the Day: Today’s working moms devote more time to child care than in the ’60s

By Amy S. Choi | Published: March 15, 2013
Tweet In a study of modern parenthood, the Pew Research Center has found that working mothers spend more hours both at paid work and at child care than they did in 1965. They are spending significantly less time doing housework. Working fathers, on the other hand, are devoting fewer hours to paid work but far [...]
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