Dr. Eliza Philby

I generalize hugely here and there's really important nuance.

But I think one of the frustrations I see with a lot of my female friends and a lot of the narrative around motherhood in particular is what were all those feminist baby boomer women doing when they were raising their sons?

Like, why don't they know how to change a nappy?

Why don't they know how to, why don't they?

And actually the truth is millennial dads are changing more nappies, pushing more prams, doing more school runs than any other generation of dads before them.

It's not because they love their children more.

than any other generation of fathers before them.

It's because the economics of marriage have fundamentally changed.

Women have stepped up in the economic contribution to the household because they've had to, but also because they wanted to, right?

But men have had to step up on the care front.

And I see it, I see modern masculinity in a really positive sense being redefined around fatherhood, right?

The public demonstration of the father, you know, father of girls, you know, father, right?

It's a really positive thing.

sort of narrative around fatherhood, I see less positivity and public demonstration around elder care and looking after aging parents and people in our families.

Because we're living in an aging society, right?

We have fewer and fewer children.

We have a ticking time bomb of an aging society and within families who historically has always done the elder care, looking after the parents.

We know

predominantly women.

So just brilliant that fathers have stepped up looking after kids.