They may enjoy
looking after their children while their wives go out to work.
But house husbands
may pay a high price for their modern take on marriage.
Research shows that
couples are more likely to divorce when the man does not work full-time.
The US researchers
say that while the gender stereotyping of women has relaxed, men still suffer
from the expectation that they should be the breadwinner.
The finding comes
from Harvard University researcher Professor Alexandra Killewald, who analysed
data on the lives, marriages and finances of 6,300 couples, including 1,700 who
had divorced.
To look at the
effect of women's increasing entry into the workforce from the mid-1970s, the
professor split the couples into two groups, based on whether they were married
before or after 1974.
