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Why WFH husbands don’t do the housework

Why WFH husbands don’t do the housework

There must be something about upbringing and environment that makes it so much harder for men to identify the domestic chores that women see as crying out to be done.

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She commutes to the office every morning; he stays at home with the children and a laptop. This is now common among young, middle-class families in the area of London where self-described “work from home husband” Daniel Tannenbaum, 34, lives.

“At the school my eldest goes to, there are more dads than mums doing the school run, not just in the morning but at 3.30 or 4pm too,” says Tannenbaum. While Tannenbaum runs his own digital marketing company, his wife Samantha, 35, is a dentist and partner at a Hertfordshire clinic.

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