I don't want to victim blame but I feel like this is a genuine issue and I want to think about how I'll bring up my daughter in regards to it.
I work for a company that creates personalised books as gifts. I proofread the customer submissions and make it make sense grammatically with the pre-made book, if that makes sense. I am sick of reading books to daddy that talk about how he loves to play football or go down the pub, while the books to mummy say she loves looking after her children or 'spending daddy's money lol!!!'
Or they'll say things like daddy doesn't like when mummy gives him a list of chores. Hard to describe here in a short post but I've just read submission after submission of families that are so stereotypically mum is the carer and cleaner and dad works and goes down the pub and plays footie.
I Joined mumsnet after having my baby a year ago and am shocked at the sheer number of posts like 'I work full time and do all cooking all cleaning and all childcare and this week I asked my husband to babysit his child for an hour so I could get my hair done and he called me a bitch, did I do something wrong?' I'm shocked at the number of women that seem to be in relationships with men who contribute exactly nothing except a paycheck.
How can we teach our daughters to expect better? Genuinely asking as I am despairing for women being treated like crap having somehow been made to feel that it's normal or okay.