“Unfortunately, little kids are like sponges that soak up stereotypes,” one researcher says.
Our Father's Day interactive calculates how much time you spend on housework and childcare and compare it with that of other fathers. You also see how much work fathers (and mothers) do in various countries
The UN surveyed factors affecting gender equality in 151 countries, and found that US is coming up short. Part of the reason? Workplace inequality, but also a rise in the number of women dying from complications of childbirth.
The push to get more Japanese women into the workforce has many of them worried that they're just being asked to do more with less.