Now, dad feels as stressed as mom

New York Times: “Father’s Day brings this offering of a dubious milestone: Husbands are now just as stressed out as their harried wives. … Just last week, Boston College released a study called ‘The New Dad’ suggesting that new fathers face a subtle bias in the workplace, which fails to recognize their stepped-up family responsibilities and presumes that they will be largely unaffected by children. … Fathers also seem more unhappy than mothers with the juggling act: In dual-earner couples, 59 percent of fathers report some level of ‘work-life conflict,’ compared with about 45 percent of women, according to a 2008 report from the Families and Work Institute in New York.”