“The most important career choice you’ll make is who you’ll marry,” Sheryl Sandberg, the ubiquitous Facebook COO and author of the “Lean In” book (and social movement), famously tells women. She advocates marrying someone who will do 50% of the “second shift,” freeing women to go full force in their careers, and allowing those stubborn low numbers of women in leadership positions to finally rise.
IF A MAN DOES ALL THE WORK THAT A WOMAN TRADITIONALLY DOES, as my stay-at-home husband happily does, IS THE PROBLEM SOLVED? Did I manage to reverse the gender roles and be the “father” who goes to work? Fresh out of law school, I expected to. But, it wasn’t so straightforward. Continue reading The Unsteady Rise of the Power Mom and the Diapering Dad