Fatherhood is in flux in many contemporary societies today. Over the last 75 years, women have entered the paid workforce en masse. Now that mothers are contributing income to their families, fathers’ role in childcare has increased, too. According to recent time diary studies, the average daily minutes that men spent in childcare have tripled since the 1960s.
The conflation of selfhood with professional identity and self-worth with productivity and ambition is, of course, why stay-at-home motherhood is regarded as such a lowly vocation. At home, there’s no remuneration for services rendered or ladder to climb, nor is there much external validation. To be a stay-at-home mother is, therefore, to step outside of the productivity paradigm entirely, “to [fall] off the edge of the working world,” in the words of Mary Harrington.
While there has been post-pandemic progress in areas such as education (albeit a gender attainment gap still persists), recent figures on employment, suicide and crime have not “recovered.” These have been featured in the CPRMB report (Missing Men Business Scorecard).The national level messaging and narrative (including the political message) has changed since Netflix’s Adolescence due to evidence-based research from the Centre for Social Justice’s Lost Boys Report, The narrative has changed from “The problems (young men) and boys cause” to” The problems (young) men and boys have – and now we do something to help them.”
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