Reply #89: Wrong

[DireStrike]

The confusion comes from this part of the sentence:

"the father engages in the highest level of housework and childcare"

Is it "Highest" meaning the highest level in the household, or highest out of the other men he is being compared to?

In the first case, the husband is doing more housework than the wife in addition to being sole breadwinner. Sounds like a good deal to me - I'd stay in that marriage. Since the marriage is referenced shortly beforehand, it seems like this first interpretation is what was intended.

In the second case, the husband could be doing any non-zero amount of housework. This makes a bit more sense but the other interpretation is not completely ridiculous. (And I feel I have to qualify that further... not completely ridiculous in the context of harebrained media interpretation of findings in studies.)