Sheryl Sandberg on Helping Women Succeed: Men, Lean in, Help with Your Kids, Help with the House’

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SANDBERG: “Our data show that for the average couple, a man is doing an average of 50 hours of housework and child care, that’s unprecedented. We've never seen that before. But the average woman is doing 71 hours. That’s a 21-hour gap, every week. That’s half a full-time job. And women of color are doing even more, single mothers are doing even more. So a lot of kids are home from school, a lot of schools are doing distance learning. If you have young kids are you know you have to try to sit next to them to keep them focused. We need that work to be evenly shared between men and women, otherwise women in the workforce are going to take an even bigger step back during Coronavirus. And we don’t want that to happen. On the other hand, if we can use this as an opportunity for men to really step up, men, lean in, lean in, help with your kids, help with the house, this could be a turning point, not just for women but for workplaces overall.”