Equality at home

The march for the equality of the sexes seems to fall apart at the family hearth

In a 2011 BBC documentary J K Rowling said that she managed to write a book while raising a baby as a broke single mother because she “didn’t do housework for four years. Living in squalor, that was the answer.”
 
Women less unmoved by mess or with less magic on their minds might wish they could do the same — go AWOL on the Sisyphean, never-ending task of housework and devote that time to themselves. For even today, in most countries around the world, women end up doing more household chores than their male partners. The march for the