https://www.wired.com/story/domestic-work-metoo-moment/ > Academic publishers were some of the first to notice it happening. In the early weeks of the Covid-19 lockdowns, editors at certain journals spotted a decline in submissions from women. In the same period, submissions from men increased. From the start, quarantine has meant something different for men than it has for women—and the reason for that is as obvious as it is unfair. > Managing a household is a full-time job. Being in charge of a box full of frightened humans in the middle of a pandemic is a full-time job on nightmare mode. Almost nobody can physically do that job alongside full-time paid work, and in quarantine, the job is endless. The dishes need to be done and redone. The kids have to be prevented from engaging in domestic vandalism and autocannibalism. There are no babysitters, grandparents, or relatives to fall back on, the municipal childcare machine of the state school system has been shut down for months, and parents have doubled or tripled an already exhausting workload.