Why I Put My Wife's Career First Analysis

In the October 2015 issued in The Atlantic new paper, Andrew Moravcsik, wrote an article called “Why I Put My Wife’s Career First.” The subheading of the article is: “the well-being of children, the status of women, and the happiness of men depend on whether fathers are willing to take on primary parenting roles.” Moravcsik argues that as one parent moves into the workforce especially into a demanding career, whereas the other parent regardless of gender must take on the leading role in the household. He calls himself the “lead parent” and argues that being a lead dad can be good for one’s marriage; where the children benefit from having a father at home, and importantly having a more egalitarian relationship with an open-ended distribution …show more content…
Anna-Marie was strongly involved in her career and would have been overwhelmed by both jobs. Thus, he step forward and sacrificed his career, the benefit of her. Evidently Moravcsik’s quotes from the Pew research center, that only 4 percent of men do more than their female partner (Ibid).
Researchers have state this is the “motherhood penalty” which evolved from jobs not accommodating women, or men that have families. With the tremendous amount of pressure, a fulltime career can have, it becomes challenging to balance work life and parental roles. With that being said, many women feel as if they are at a disadvantage strictly based on their gender. Stepping into different roles can be quit beneficial for the entire family, however for Moravcsik’s children many challenges have arisen. In which it’s common for adolescents to experience rebellious periods in their lives, for parents and children it creates many obstacles and hardship in a family relationships. These obstacles’ create tension within the home and become eye-opening experiences in how difficult it could be, in being the lead