Moms end up worrying and arranging more family events than Dad for a variety of reasons.
Ultimately, this takes a toll on their careers and psyches.
The author write, “It’s surprising that household supervision resists gender reassignment to the degree that it does. In the United States today, more than half of all women work, and women are 40 percent of the sole or primary breadwinners in households with children under 18….Nonetheless, “one of the last things to go is women keeping track of the kind of non-routine details of taking care of children — when they have to go to the doctor, when they need a permission slip for school, paying attention at that level,” says the social psychologist Francine Deutsch, author of “Halving It All: How Equally Shared Parenting Works.”