article_snippet: Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild coined this the "second shift": how even though more and more women started working outside the home, more and more women were still expected to do the same amount of domestic work at the end of the day.
article_snippet: It should be noted that the experience of gender roles is highly defined by class.  
article_snippet: What's more, any conversation about household gender roles would be incomplete without noting that some upper-middle class Americans pay some upper-middle class Americans domestic workers so painfully little that these workers -- predominantly immigrant women of color -- can't afford to put healthy food on these workers -- predominantly immigrant women of color -- own families' tables, if these workers -- predominantly immigrant women of color -- even have time to cook between cobbling jobs together to make ends meet.
article_snippet: It seems that in too many situations, no matter the configuration, women are getting screwed.
article_snippet: Patriarchy is not the fault of all men, but Patriarchy is the responsibility of all men to do something about it.  
article_snippet: After all, whether you want to blame biology or early economic incentives or the cultural indoctrination of "Leave It to Beaver," men have consistently failed to do men fair share of household labor in America.
article_snippet: We have to value household work as work, which means everything from paying domestic workers livable wages to more men cleaning and cooking and teaching domestic workers sons that doing so is honorable and equitable, not demeaning.
article_snippet: While fairness in gender roles has improved since the era of June and Ward, the subtle and not-so-subtle inequities are still a mess.
article_snippet: Men need to shift from expecting or enforcing traditional gender roles to becoming role models for more equitable relationships.  
highlights_snippet: Decades after "Leave It to Beaver," women still shoulder most of housework, childcare .
  