Keke Palmer Has Me Wondering — Can A Stay At Home Man Be The Head Of The Household?
This is a very relevant question for today’s world as women’s incomes increase and more and more couples consist of a woman who out-earns her partner. Also, an increasing number of men are opting to be stay at home husbands and fathers. There are also men who work from home and tend to their children at the same time.
As Forbes says in The Rise Of the Stay-At-Home Dad, “the increase is attributed, in large part, to women out-earning their male partners.”
There is a big societal shift in attitudes toward gender roles and parenting taking place, as more dads are staying at home and tending to childcare. According to the Pew Research Center, an estimated 2.1 million fathers were stay-at-home dads in 2021 — up 8% since 1989.
Also, men are leaving the workforce — especially men who choose to not work at all instead of working and earning a low salary. This is a result of the decline in jobs that are thought of as masculine like factory work, manufacturing, and construction. This trend is only going to progress as men enroll in college less and less.
Similar to the financial-crisis era, many men left the workforce during the pandemic and have not returned. As of last month, over 7 million men between the ages of 25 and 54 are not…
