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College-educated fathers are stepping it up at home

A bar chart that compares changes in weekly paid work and child care or housework hours for college-educated parents in 2017-19 versus 2022-24. Fathersâ paid work fell 5.96 hours while their unpaid work rose 4.43 hours. Mothers were nearly unchanged, at plus 0.11 and minus 0.1 hours.

Change in hours college-educated parents spent doing paid and unpaid work 

Data: American Time Use Survey via American Institute for Boys and Men; Note: Covers partnered parents with at least one child under age 6; Chart: Emily Peck/Axios

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