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A rose-tinted look back at early post war history, through the medium of film and TV, shows that the demarcation of familial roles and responsibilities was generally quite distinct. Mother looked after the house and the children, father went out to work and brought home the bacon. But in recent years the evolution of parental rights has changed the equation somewhat; it’s now not uncommon to see mother go out to work while father stays at home caring for the children.
This societal sea-change has not gone unnoticed by Han-Son Lee, founder of Daddilife.com, an online community that seeks to support fathers. In May 2019, Daddilife published research that it undertook to see what life was like for 1,200 fathers at work: “We found that 87% of millennial dads were active in a day to day role as parents… but there is still too much of a stereotype that ‘dads should just be at work.’ It’s a position that does nothing for true gender balance and gender equality.”
A natural question that many ask is how men – without touching on the niceties of political correctness – find the world of parental rights? Are there hurdles to their taking a greater role in the upbringing of their children?
Lee thinks men are lagging behind women in taking time out. He says: “it’s difficult to give a precise number [as to the proportion of fathers that take time off] as not all firms track it accurately, but our research shows that up to one third of new fathers are not even taking their two weeks.”
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