Have Women Outgrown Traditional Marriage Roles?

If You Are Earning More, Shouldn’t You Be Doing Less?

I have been noticing a fascinating transition amongst many women I know: they are outgrowing the traditional needs of a husband.

As women start to take over more and more of the professional workplace their positions and salaries are starting to grow larger and larger as well. I also know multiple women who outearn their spouses in the workplace but still outperform their spouses in the household.

How do we even the playing field?

If a woman is outperforming her partner, professionally speaking, should the male not start taking the lead on the homefront? Wasn’t it the reason women were doing the majority of the housework and child-rearing, to begin with, because they were not as financially relevant? So if that changes and women start bringing home the dollars, shouldn’t their homely duties shift (or decrease) as well?

Before all the decent men start to get offended, I am not talking about you; I am referring to the spouse in a relationship who doesn’t ‘know’ how to cook, who thinks laundry magically gets washed, folded and reappears in the closet, and has absolutely…