Behind every great academic...

[sawyl]

Today's quote of the day comes from part of Cordelia Fine's discussion of gender inequalities in the home:

But the data from a study of the faculty at the University of California are telling. Female faculty with children report working fifty-one hours a week at their jobs and another fifty-one hours a week doing housework and child care — truly the second shift... Faculty fathers, by contrast, put in only thirty-two unpaid work hours a week... Behind every great academic man there is a woman, but behind every great academic woman is an unpeeled potato and child who needs some attention.

Fine, C., (2010), Delusions of Gender, Icon Books, 93

(For completeness, I'll note that the sentences I've excised — nothing sinister, I'm just too lazy to transcribe them — only serve to add further details to the size of the difference between the two groups).