Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers

This book focuses on issues of family, work, and gender, with a focus on gender inequality. Women are disadvantaged in both paid and domestic work, due in large part to being primarily responsible for duties within the domestic sphere. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these inequalities, making the issue of reducing gender inequality even more pressing.

Fathers play an important role in contributing to, and perhaps reducing, gender inequality, but barriers to their involvement in famil...