America's Real End-of-Days Problem

dual income parents are tired of all the schedule chaos...

During life history interviews for my forthcoming book, I encountered the same pattern among older Americans aged 47+. In the 1950s-1980s, the daily rhythms of suburban domestic life were tied to a strict gendered division of labor, and there was not much day-to-day variation.

This became clear in my gentle ‘interrogation’ of the evening dinner. You coul…