Today in "No shit, Sherlock"

According to a report from the Pew Research Center, as reported in the NYTimes:

Over all, the evidence shows that the shifts within marriages — men taking on more housework and women earning more outside the home — have had a positive effect, contributing to lower divorce rates and happier unions.

And:

Sociologists and economists say that financially independent women can be more selective in marrying, and they also have more negotiating power within the marriage. But it’s not just women who win. The net result tends to be a marriage that is more fair and equitable to husbands and wives.

 

Yahoo! Data to support my lifelong belief that feminism would make things better for men and women.
But count on the Times to find a way to make women sound petty and controlling and men to sound entitled:

Men, for instance, sometimes have a hard time adjusting to a woman’s equal or greater earning power. Women, meanwhile, struggle with giving up their power at home and controlling tasks like how to dress the children or load the dishwasher.

Because, like, resenting your wife's work is so very completely balanced by her being picky about the dishwasher.

Also, this:

Even among dual-earning couples, women still do about two-thirds of the housework, on average, according to the University of Wisconsin National Survey of Families and Households. But men do contribute far more than they used to. Studies show that since the 1960s, men’s contributions to housework have doubled, while the amount of time spent caring for children has tripled. 

I'm not sure you should use "doubled" and "tripled" when starting with the 1960s as a base. Because when you multiply zero by 2 or 3, you still get zero. Or is this one of those jokes about women not understanding math? 

But it all has a happy ending, in the words of this stay-at-home dad:

Mothers tend to shower him with praise. “I get the same reaction from all the moms,” he said. “They say, ‘That’s great, my husband wouldn’t be able to do it.’ I think they’re selling their husbands short. All guys could do it, just like all women can be the breadwinners.”

Indeed.